Parallel Verses

Montgomery New Testament

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

New American Standard Bible

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

King James Version

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Holman Bible

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

International Standard Version

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

A Conservative Version

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.

American Standard Version

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

Amplified

John replied, “A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing at all] unless it has been granted to him from heaven [for there is no other source than the sovereign will of God].

An Understandable Version

John replied to them, "A person cannot receive anything, unless it has been given to him from [God in] heaven.

Anderson New Testament

John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it be given to him from heaven.

Bible in Basic English

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

Common New Testament

John answered, "A man can receive only what is given to him from heaven.

Daniel Mace New Testament

but John made them this answer, a man can have no authority, but what he derives from heaven.

Darby Translation

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it be given him out of heaven.

Godbey New Testament

John responded and said, No man is able to receive anything, unless it may have been given unto him from heaven.

Goodspeed New Testament

John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.

John Wesley New Testament

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven.

Julia Smith Translation

John answered and said, No man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven.

King James 2000

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Lexham Expanded Bible

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

Modern King James verseion

And John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from Heaven.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

John answered, and said, "A man can receive nothing at all except it be given him from heaven.

Moffatt New Testament

John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.

NET Bible

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

New Heart English Bible

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Noyes New Testament

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven.

Sawyer New Testament

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven.

The Emphasized Bible

John answered, and said - A man can receive, nothing, except it have been given him out of heaven.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

John answered and said, A man cannot assume any thing, except it be given him from heaven.

Twentieth Century New Testament

John's answer was--"A man can gain nothing but what is given him from Heaven.

Webster

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Weymouth New Testament

"A man cannot obtain anything," replied John, "unless it has been granted to him from Heaven.

Williams New Testament

John answered, "A man cannot get anything, unless it is given to him from heaven.

World English Bible

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

Worrell New Testament

John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from Heaven.

Worsley New Testament

John answered and said, A man can take nothing upon him, unless it be given him from heaven.

Youngs Literal Translation

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ἰωάννης 
Ioannes 
John , John , John , John
Usage: 116

ἀποκρίνομαι 
Apokrinomai 
Usage: 231

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

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

A man
ἄνθρωπος 
Anthropos 
man, not tr,
Usage: 316

can
δύναμαι 
Dunamai 
can , cannot , be able, may , able,
Usage: 140

λαμβάνω 
lambano 
receive, take, have, catch, not tr,
Usage: 178

οὐδείς 
Oudeis 
Usage: 160

μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

it be
ὦ 
be, may be, should be, is, might be, were, not tr,
Usage: 41

δίδωμι 
Didomi 
Usage: 254

him

Usage: 0

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

References

Easton

Context Readings

Additional Testimony By John The Baptist About Jesus

26 "Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him." 27 In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'


Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.

Matthew 21:25

John's baptism, whence was it, from heaven or from man?" So they began debating about it among themselves.

Matthew 25:15

"To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one??o each according to his individual ability??nd then set out on his travels.

Mark 11:30-31

The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me!"

Mark 13:34

Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch;

Romans 1:5

It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;

Romans 12:6

But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.

1 Corinthians 1:1

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.

1 Corinthians 2:12-14

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

1 Corinthians 3:5

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.

1 Corinthians 12:11

But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.

Galatians 1:1

Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;

Ephesians 1:1

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 3:7-8

It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

1 Timothy 2:7

It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Hebrews 5:4-5

Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.

1 Peter 4:10-11

Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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