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 8:31–32Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• John 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• John 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”
• Dan 12:10Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
• Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
• Phil 3:15–16Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
• Ps 119:101–102I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• Luke 8:15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.
• Ps 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
• Mic 4:2Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, 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 will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
• Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
• Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
• Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Matt 6:22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
• John 1:46–49Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
• Acts 11:13–14He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Acts 10:1–6Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

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