John 8:47

WEB

⁴⁷He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

KJV

⁴⁷ He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

BSB

⁴⁷Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”

FBV

⁴⁷Anyone who belongs to God listens to what God says. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God.”

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Extra References

John 10:26-27

²⁶But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. ²⁷My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

2 John 1:9

⁹Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

³⁷Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

1 John 3:10

¹⁰In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

John 6:45-46

⁴⁵It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me. ⁴⁶Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

John 8:37

³⁷I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

John 8:45

⁴⁵But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

John 6:65

⁶⁵He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

John 1:12-13

¹²But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: ¹³who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

1 John 4:1-6

¹Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ²By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, ³and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God; and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already. ⁴You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. ⁵They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.