John 8:21

Jesus warns that He is going away, and they will seek Him but die in their sins, unable to come where He goes. Persistent unbelief leads to death apart from Him.

Cross-references · 20

• John 7:34You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
• John 8:24That is why I told you that you would die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
• John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
• Ezek 3:18–19If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
• 1 Cor 15:17–18And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
• Luke 16:22–26One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
• Matt 23:39For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
• Ps 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
• Prov 11:7When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
• John 12:33He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
• Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
• Prov 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
• John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• Matt 25:46And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• 2 Kgs 2:16–17“Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.
• 1 Kgs 18:10As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
• Isa 65:20No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
• Matt 25:41Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
• Eph 2:1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
• Matt 24:23–24At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.

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