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 8:31–32Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
• John 8:43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
• Jer 31:33–34But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• John 8:47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
• Dan 12:10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
• Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
• Phil 3:15–16Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
• Ps 119:101–102I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
• Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• Luke 8:15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
• Ps 25:12What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
• Mic 4:2And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• Isa 35:8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
• Ps 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
• Ps 25:14The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
• Mal 4:2But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Matt 6:22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
• John 1:46–49And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
• Acts 11:13–14And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
• Hos 6:3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
• Acts 10:1–6There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,

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