Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not trustworthy.
American Standard Version
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
If I testify about myself, my testimony is not [considered] true.
Anderson New Testament
If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not worthy of credit.
Bible in Basic English
If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.
Common New Testament
"If I bear witness of myself, my testimony is not true.
Daniel Mace New Testament
if I testified of my self, my testimony would be suspected.
Darby Translation
If I bear witness concerning myself, my witness is not true.
Godbey New Testament
If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true.
Goodspeed New Testament
"If I testify to myself, my testimony is not true.
John Wesley New Testament
If I testify of myself, my testimony is not valid.
Julia Smith Translation
If I testify of myself, my testimony is not true.
King James 2000
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
Modern King James verseion
If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Moffatt New Testament
If I testify to myself, then my evidence is not valid;
Montgomery New Testament
"If I bear testimony concerning myself, my testimony is not valid.
NET Bible
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.
New Heart English Bible
"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
Noyes New Testament
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Sawyer New Testament
If I testify of myself my testimony is not true.
The Emphasized Bible
If, I, bear witness, concerning myself, my witness, is not, true.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
Twentieth Century New Testament
If I bear testimony to myself, my testimony is not trustworthy;
Webster
If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true.
Weymouth New Testament
"If I give testimony concerning myself, my testimony cannot be accepted.
Williams New Testament
"If I bear witness to myself, my testimony is of no force,
World English Bible
"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
Worrell New Testament
If I testify concerning Myself, My testimony is not true.
Worsley New Testament
If I alone bear witness of my self, my testimony is not true in law:
Youngs Literal Translation
'If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;
Themes
Receiving » Who did not receive jesus Christ
Scripture » The scriptures testifying of jesus Christ
Witness » Who is a witness of the lord
Interlinear
Martureo
Peri
Emautou
References
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 5:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Further Testimony About The Son
30 I can from myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge. And my judgment is righteous because I seek not my will, but the will of the Father who sent me. 31 If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. 32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony that he testifies about me is valid.
Cross References
John 8:13-14
The Pharisees therefore said to him, Thou testify about thyself. Thy testimony is not valid.
John 8:54
Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Revelation 3:14
And to the agent of the congregation in Laodicea write, These things says the Truly, the faithful and TRUE witness, the primacy of the creation of God: