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 seek me, and won’t find me; and where I am, you can’t come.”
• John 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
• John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
• Ezek 3:18–19When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
• 1 Cor 15:17–18If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.
• Luke 16:22–26The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
• Matt 23:39For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”
• Ps 73:18–20Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
• Prov 11:7When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.
• John 12:33But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
• Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
• Prov 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
• 2 Kgs 2:16–17They said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. Perhaps Yahweh’s Spirit has taken him up, and put him on some mountain, or into some valley. He said, “Don’t send them.”
• 1 Kgs 18:10As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.
• Isa 65:20“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
• Matt 25:41Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• Eph 2:1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,
• Matt 24:23–24“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.

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