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 15:29Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Prov 28:9He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
• Mic 3:4Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
• Prov 1:28–29Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• Ps 145:19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
• Ps 34:15–16Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
• Ps 66:18–20If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
• Prov 21:13Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
• 1 Jn 3:21–22Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
• Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
• Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, 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 godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• Ps 18:41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
• Job 35:12There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
• 2 Chr 32:20–21Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.
• John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
• Job 42:8Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls 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 I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
• Jas 5:15–18and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
• Jer 11:11Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
• Jer 15:1Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
• 1 Kgs 17:20–22He cried to Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?”
• Isa 58:9Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
• Gen 20:7Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
• Gen 19:29When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
• John 11:41–42So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.
• Gen 18:23–33Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• Ps 99:6Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them.
• Ps 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
• 1 Kgs 18:36–38At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
• Heb 10:7Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

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