John 7:17

Jesus says that anyone willing to do God's will shall know whether His teaching is from God or from Himself. Moral willingness to obey opens the way to spiritual understanding.

Cross-references · 21

• John 8:31–32So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
• John 8:43Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• John 8:47Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
• Dan 12:10Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
• Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Phil 3:15–16All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
• Ps 119:101–102I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• Luke 8:15But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
• Ps 25:12Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.
• Mic 4:2And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Isa 35:8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
• Ps 119:10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
• Ps 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• Matt 6:22The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
• John 1:46–49“Can anything good come from Nazareth?” Nathanael asked. “Come and see,” said Philip.
• Acts 11:13–14He told us how he had seen an angel standing in his house and saying, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter.
• Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Acts 10:1–6At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

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