Parallel Verses

Youngs 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;'

New American Standard Bible

You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.”

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.

Holman Bible

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

International Standard Version

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

A Conservative Version

Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God.

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.

Amplified

You are doing the works of your [own] father.” They said to Him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one [spiritual] Father: God.”

An Understandable Version

You people are doing what your father does." They said to Him, "We were not born illegitimately; the only Father we have is God."

Anderson New Testament

You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God.

Bible in Basic English

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

Common New Testament

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God."

Daniel Mace New Testament

your actions are like your father. at this they reply'd, we are no bastards; we have but one father, even God.

Darby Translation

Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

Godbey New Testament

You are doing the works of your father. They said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.

Goodspeed New Testament

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

John Wesley New Testament

Abraham did not thus. Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.

King James 2000

You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

Modern King James verseion

You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, even God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye do the deeds of your father." Then said they unto him, "We were not born of fornication. We have one father which is God."

Moffatt New Testament

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

Montgomery New Testament

"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."

NET Bible

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

New Heart 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."

Noyes New Testament

Ye do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.

Sawyer New Testament

You do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born by fornication, we have one father, God.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him - We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we - God.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We are not born of whoredom; we have one Father, even God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."

Webster

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Weymouth New Testament

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

Williams New Testament

You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."

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."

Worrell New Testament

Ye do the works of your father." They say to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father??od."

Worsley New Testament

But ye do the works of your father. Then said they unto Him, We are not born of fornication, we have one Father, even God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye
ὑμείς 
Humeis 
ye, ye yourselves, you, not tr
Usage: 120

do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

the deeds
ἔργον 
Ergon 
Usage: 130

of your
ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

to him

Usage: 0

We
ἡμεῖς 
hemeis 
we, us, we ourselves
Usage: 120

be
γεννάω 
Gennao 
Usage: 84

not
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032

γεννάω 
Gennao 
Usage: 84

of
ἐκ ἐξ 
Ek 
of, from, out of, by, on, with,
Usage: 709

πορνεία 
Porneia 
Usage: 21

we have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

one
εἷς 
heis 
one, a, other, some, not tr,
Usage: 188

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham

40 and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not; 41 ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;' 42 Jesus then said to them, 'If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;



Cross References

Isaiah 63:16

For Thou art our Father, For Abraham hath not known us, And Israel doth not acknowledge us, Thou, O Jehovah, art our Father, Our redeemer from the age, is Thy name.

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father, We are the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand -- all of us.

John 8:38

I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'

John 8:44

Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

Deuteronomy 32:6

To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.

Exodus 4:22

and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born is Israel,

Deuteronomy 14:1

Sons ye are to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

Isaiah 57:3-7

And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.

Jeremiah 3:19

And I have said, How do I put thee among the sons, And give to thee a desirable land, A beauteous inheritance of the hosts of nations, And I say, My father -- ye do call to Me, And from after Me ye do not turn back.

Jeremiah 31:20

A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms,

Ezekiel 23:45-47

As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they are adulteresses, And blood is in their hands.

Hosea 1:2

The commencement of Jehovah's speaking by Hosea. And Jehovah saith unto Hosea, 'Go, take to thee a woman of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms, for utterly go a-whoring doth the land from after Jehovah.'

Hosea 2:2-5

Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she is not My wife, and I am not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

Malachi 1:6

A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I am a father, where is Mine honour? And if I am a master, where is My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: 'In what have we despised Thy name?'

Malachi 2:11

Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

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