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 heareth the prayer of the righteous.
• Isa 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Prov 28:9He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
• Mic 3:4Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
• Prov 1:28–29Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
• Ps 145:19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
• Ps 34:15–16The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
• Zech 7:13Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
• Ps 66:18–20If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
• Prov 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
• 1 Jn 3:21–22Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
• Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
• Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
• Job 27:8–9For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
• John 15:16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• Ps 18:41They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
• Job 35:12There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
• 2 Chr 32:20–21And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.
• John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
• John 7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
• Job 42:8Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
• Jas 5:15–18And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
• Jer 11:11Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.
• Jer 15:1Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
• 1 Kgs 17:20–22And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
• Isa 58:9Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
• Gen 20:7Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
• Gen 19:29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
• John 11:41–42Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
• Gen 18:23–33And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
• Ps 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Ps 99:6Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
• Ps 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
• 1 Kgs 18:36–38And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
• Heb 10:7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

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