KJV King James Version
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
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John 8:41
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
WEB World English Bible
You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
ASV American Standard Version
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
ye do the works of your father.’ They said, therefore, to him, ‘We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have—God;’
Surrounding context — John 8
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [even] because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὑμεῖςG4771 · suyouποιεῖτεG4160 · poieōto do/make: doτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoἔργαG2041 · ergonworkτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoπατρὸςG3962 · patērfatherὑμῶν.G4771 · suyouεἶπανG2036 · eiponto sayαὐτῷ·G846 · autosit/s/heἡμεῖςG3165 · memeἐκG1537 · ekout fromπορνείαςG4202 · porneiasexual sinοὐG3756 · ounoγεγεννήμεθα·G1080 · gennaōto begetἕναG1520 · ehisoneπατέραG3962 · patērfatherἔχομενG2192 · echōto have/beτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεόν.¶G2316 · theosGod
Cross-references
Isaiah 64:8But now, O LORD, thou [art] our father; we [are] the clay, and thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of thy hand.John 8:44Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.John 8:38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.Isaiah 63:16Doubtless thou [art] our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, [art] our father, our redeemer; thy name [is] from everlasting.Malachi 2:11Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.Deuteronomy 14:1Ye [are] the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.Deuteronomy 32:6Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? [is] not he thy father [that] hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?Isaiah 57:3-7But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.Exodus 4:22And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel [is] my son, [even] my firstborn:Jeremiah 31:20[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.Malachi 1:6A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?Jeremiah 3:19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.Hosea 2:2-5Plead with your mother, plead: for she [is] not my wife, neither [am] I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;Ezekiel 16:20-21Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy whoredoms a small matter,Ezekiel 23:45-47And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they [are] adulteresses, and blood [is] in their hands.Hosea 1:2The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.
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