Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

New American Standard Bible

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He gives the Spirit without measure.

King James Version

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Holman Bible

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

International Standard Version

The one whom God sent speaks the words of God, because God does not give the Spirit in limited measure to him.

American Standard Version

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.

Amplified

For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God [proclaiming the Father’s own message]; for God gives the [gift of the] Spirit without measure [generously and boundlessly]!

An Understandable Version

For the One whom God has sent [i.e., Jesus] speaks the words of God, for He [i.e., God] does not give the Holy Spirit in a limited quantity [i.e., to Jesus. See next verse].

Anderson New Testament

For he whom God has sent, speaks the words of God; for God gives not the Spirit by measure to him.

Bible in Basic English

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

Common New Testament

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Daniel Mace New Testament

for he whom God hath sent, saith nothing but what is divine: for God hath given him the spirit without restriction.

Darby Translation

for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

Godbey New Testament

For whom God sent speaketh the words of God: for He does not give His spirit by measure.

Goodspeed New Testament

For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure.

John Wesley New Testament

For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God; for God giveth not him the Spirit by measure.

Julia Smith Translation

For he whom God sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

King James 2000

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For [the one] whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure.

Modern King James verseion

For He whom God has sent speaks the Words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God. For God giveth not the spirit by measure.

Moffatt New Testament

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure;

Montgomery New Testament

For he whom God sent utters the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit sparingly.

NET Bible

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

New Heart English Bible

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for he does not give the Spirit by measure.

Noyes New Testament

For he whom God sent speaketh the words of God; for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.

Sawyer New Testament

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives not the Spirit by measure.

The Emphasized Bible

For, he whom God hath sent, the sayings of God, doth speak; for, not by measure, giveth he the Spirit.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God hath not given the Spirit by measure unto him.

Twentieth Century New Testament

For he whom God sent as his Messenger gives us God's own teaching, for God does not limit the gift of the Spirit.

Webster

For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for to him God giveth not the Spirit by measure.

Weymouth New Testament

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

Williams New Testament

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

World English Bible

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Worrell New Testament

For He Whom God sent speaketh the words of God; for He giveth not the Spirit by measure.

Worsley New Testament

for He, whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God giveth the Spirit to Him not by measure.

Youngs Literal Translation

for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

he whom
ὅς ἥ ὅ 
Hos 
Usage: 980

God
θεός 
theos 
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151
Usage: 1151

ἀποστέλλω 
Apostello 
Usage: 73

λαλέω 
Laleo 
Usage: 235

the words
ῥῆμα 
Rhema 
word, saying, thing, no thing Trans, not tr
Usage: 57

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

for
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

δίδωμι 
Didomi 
Usage: 254

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

the Spirit
πνεῦμα 
Pneuma 
Usage: 334

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

μέτρον 
metron 
Usage: 8

Images John 3:34

Prayers for John 3:34

Context Readings

Additional Testimony By John The Baptist About Jesus

33 He who has received his testimony has set a seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God sent speaks the sayings of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

Cross References

John 3:17

For God sent the Son into the world not that he might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good-news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliv

John 5:26

For as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to the Son to have life in himself.

Acts 10:38

Jesus of Nazareth--how God anointed him with Holy Spirit and with power, who passed through doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.

Numbers 11:25

And LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took from the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no mor

2 Kings 2:9

And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee before I am taken from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

Psalm 45:7

Thou have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

Isaiah 11:2-5

And the Spirit of LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of LORD.

Isaiah 59:21

And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says LORD: My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed

Isaiah 62:1-3

For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

Matthew 12:18

Behold, my Boy whom I chose, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare justice to the Gentiles.

John 1:16

And from his fullness we all received, even grace for grace.

John 7:16

Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me.

John 7:37-39

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus had stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

John 8:26-28

I have many things to say and to judge about you. But he who sent me is true, and I speak to the world these things that I heard from him.

John 8:40

But now ye seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

John 8:47

He who is of God hears the sayings of God. Because of this ye do not hear, because ye are not of God.

John 15:26

But when the helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

John 16:7

Nevertheless I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you that I depart, for if I do not depart, the helper will not come to you. But whenever I go, I will send him to you.

Ephesians 3:8

To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

Ephesians 4:7-13

But the grace was given to each of us, according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

Colossians 1:19

Because in him it was considered good for all the fullness dwell,

Colossians 2:9

Because in him all the fullness of the divinity dwells bodily.

Revelation 21:6

And he said to me, I have become, I, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him who is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Revelation 22:1

And he showed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Revelation 22:16-17

I, Jesus, have sent my agent to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

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