1 John 5:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.”
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“Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.”
King James Version · Public Domain“If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 John 5:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 3:16As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
- Matthew 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
- John 3:32He testifies to what He has seen and heard, yet no one accepts His testimony.
- John 5:31If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.
- John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
- John 8:17Even in your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
- John 10:38But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
- Acts 5:32We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
- Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
- Hebrews 2:4and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.
- Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- 1 John 5:10Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
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