1 John 5:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

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Matthew 3:16

Matthew 17:5

Bible References

We

he that believeth on the son of God, hath the testimony of God thereto: he that does not believe God, impeaches his veracity, because he does not believe the testimony that God gave of his son.

and what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; but his testimony doth no man receive.

if I testified of my self, my testimony would be suspected.

now it is written in your law, that the testimony of two men is valid.

but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him.

and we are his witnesses in what we say, and so is the holy spirit, whom God hath given to those that obey him.

because he has fix'd the day, when he will judge in equity, by that man, whom he has appointed thereto: of which he has given full proof to all the world, by having raised him from the dead."

God also giving an additional testimony both by signs, by prodigies, by divers miracles, and gifts of the holy spirit, which he distributes as he pleases.

that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to deceive us, we, who have no other refuge to fly to, but to maintain our present hopes,

For

and when Jesus was baptized, he came out of the water: and immediately the heavens seem'd to be parted asunder before him, and he saw the Spirit

while he was speaking, a bright cloud surrounded them: and suddenly a voice broke out of the cloud, saying, "this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."