John 6:63

Jesus says the Spirit gives life, the flesh profits nothing, and His words are spirit and life. He directs them away from a fleshly, literal reading toward spiritual understanding.

Cross-references · 28

• Gal 5:25If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
• Heb 4:12For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
• Ps 119:93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
• John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• Ps 119:130The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
• Ps 119:50This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
• 1 Pet 1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
• Deut 32:47For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
• 1 Cor 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
• Rom 10:17So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
• 2 Cor 3:6–8who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
• Rom 10:8–10But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
• Ps 19:7–10Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• John 12:49–50For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
• Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
• 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Rom 3:1–2Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
• 1 Cor 2:9–14But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
• Gal 6:15For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
• 1 Cor 11:27–29Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
• Rom 2:25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
• Heb 13:9Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
• Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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