Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
- BSB “I do not have a demon,” Jesus replied, “but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
- ESV Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
- NKJV Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
- NASB Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; on the contrary, I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.
- NLT “No,” Jesus said, “I have no demon in me. For I honor my Father—and you dishonor me.
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- 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
- Isa 49:3He said to me, “You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
- Phil 2:6–11who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
- John 17:4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
- John 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- Prov 26:4–5Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
- Matt 3:15–17But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
- John 13:31–32When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
- John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
- John 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
- Isa 42:21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
- John 12:28Father, glorify your name!” Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
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