John 5:42

Further Testimony About The Son

⁴¹ I do not accept any honor from men, ⁴²  but I am sure that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. ⁴³ I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

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John 2:25

and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

Luke 16:15

Then He said to them, "You are the men who exhibit your uprightness before the public, but God knows your hearts. For what stands high in the sight of men is detestable in the sight of God.

John 1:47-49

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

John 5:44

How can you believe, you who are always accepting honor from one another, but never seek the honor that comes from the one God?

John 8:42

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

John 8:47

Whoever is sprung from God listens to what God says. This is why you do not listen to me: you are not sprung from God."

John 8:55

And yet you have not learned to know Him; but I know Him, and if I say I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you. On the other hand, I do know Him and I do follow His teaching.

John 15:23-24

Whoever continues to hate me continues to hate my Father too.

John 21:17

For the third time Jesus asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you really tenderly love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus the third time asked him, "Do you really tenderly love me?" So he answered Him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I do tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep.

Romans 8:7

Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.

Hebrews 4:12-13

For God's message is alive and full of power in action, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the depths of soul and spirit, to the dividing of joints and marrow, and passing judgment on the thoughts and purposes of the heart.

1 John 2:15

Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,

1 John 3:17

But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

1 John 4:20

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Revelation 2:23

and I will surely strike her children dead. So all the churches will know that I am He who searches men's inmost hearts, and that I will repay each of you for exactly what you have done.