John 9:31

The man argues that God listens not to sinners but to those who worship him and do his will. He reasons that Jesus must be godly.

Cross-references · 36

• Prov 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
• Prov 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
• Mic 3:4Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
• Prov 1:28–29Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
• Ps 145:19He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
• Ps 34:15–16The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
• Zech 7:13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Ps 66:18–20If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
• Prov 21:13Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
• 1 Jn 3:21–22Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,
• Ezek 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
• Jer 14:12Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
• Job 27:8–9For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• John 15:16You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
• Ps 18:41They cried for help, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
• Job 35:12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
• 2 Chr 32:20–21In response, King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out to heaven in prayer,
• John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• Job 42:8So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
• Jas 5:15–18And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
• Jer 11:11Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
• Jer 15:1Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go.
• 1 Kgs 17:20–22Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”
• Isa 58:9Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
• Gen 20:7Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”
• Gen 19:29So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
• John 11:41–42So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
• Gen 18:23–33Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 99:6Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.
• Ps 106:23So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.
• 1 Kgs 18:36–38At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command.
• Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

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