I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
Parallel translations
- KJV But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.
- BSB but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
- NKJV But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
- NASB I do know Him, because I am from Him, and He sent Me.”
- NLT But I know him because I come from him, and he sent me to you.”
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- John 8:55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.
- Matt 11:27All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
- 1 Jn 4:9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
- John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
- John 3:16–17For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- John 17:18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
- John 17:25–26Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
- John 6:46Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.
- 1 Jn 1:2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);
- John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
- John 16:27–28for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
- 1 Jn 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- John 13:3Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,
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