Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
Jesus answered them, "This is the deed that God requires: You should believe in Him whom God has sent [i.e., in Jesus]."
New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered and said to them,
King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Holman Bible
Jesus replied,
International Standard Version
Jesus answered them, "This is God's work: to believe in the one whom he has sent."
A Conservative Version
Jesus answered, and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe in that man whom he has sent.
American Standard Version
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Amplified
Jesus answered,
Anderson New Testament
Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
Bible in Basic English
Jesus, answering, said to them, This is to do the work of God: to have faith in him whom God has sent.
Common New Testament
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
Daniel Mace New Testament
Jesus answered them, the work which God requires is to believe on him whom he hath sent.
Darby Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he has sent.
Godbey New Testament
Jesus responded and said to them, This is the work of God, that you may believe on Him whom He hath sent.
Goodspeed New Testament
Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."
John Wesley New Testament
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Julia Smith Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye should believe in him whom he has sent.
King James 2000
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in [the one] whom that one sent."
Modern King James verseion
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He has sent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Jesus answered, and said unto them, "This is the work of God: that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."
Moffatt New Testament
Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."
Montgomery New Testament
"This is the work of God," answered Jesus, "that you believe on him whom He has sent you."
NET Bible
Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."
New Heart English Bible
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
Noyes New Testament
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe in him whom he sent.
Sawyer New Testament
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God; to believe on him whom he has sent.
The Emphasized Bible
Jesus answered, and said unto them - This, is the work of God: that ye believe on him whom, he, hath sent forth.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye should believe on him whom he hath sent.
Twentieth Century New Testament
"The work that God would have you do," answered Jesus, "is to believe in him whom God sent as his Messenger."
Webster
Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Weymouth New Testament
"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."
Williams New Testament
Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."
World English Bible
Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
Worrell New Testament
Jesus answered, and said to them, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him Whom He sent."
Worsley New Testament
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him, whom He hath sent.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'
Themes
Christian conduct » Believing in Christ
Faith » Faith encouraged, reasons for » A fundamental duty
Faith » The objects of, are » Christ
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches in the synagogue in capernaum
Topics
Interlinear
Touto
Pisteuo
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Devotionals
Devotionals about John 6:29
Devotionals containing John 6:29
References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in John 6:29
Images John 6:29
Prayers for John 6:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Discourse About The Bread Of Life
28 Then the people said to Jesus, "What must we do in order to perform the deeds that God requires?" 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the deed that God requires: You should believe in Him whom God has sent [i.e., in Jesus]." 30 And they said to Him, "What kind of a [miraculous] sign will you perform so that we can see it and [then] believe [in] you? What [kind of] deed will you perform?
Cross References
1 John 3:23
And this is His commandment: We should believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ [i.e., the person of Christ], and love one another, just He has commanded us to do.
Matthew 17:5
While he was still talking, suddenly a bright cloud engulfed them. Just then, a voice spoke out of the cloud, saying, "This is my dearly loved Son, who is very pleasing to me; listen to Him."
Mark 16:16
The person who believes [i.e., the Gospel] and is immersed will be saved [i.e., from condemnation], but whoever does not believe it will be condemned.
John 3:16-18
For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.
John 3:36
The person who believes in the Son has never ending life, but the person who disobeys the Son will not see life [i.e., will not experience never ending life], but [instead], God's wrath remains on him.
John 5:39
You search through the Scriptures [i.e., the Old Testament], because you think that you will [learn how to] have never ending life by [reading] them. And these Scriptures are what testify concerning me.
Acts 16:31
Paul and Silas said, "You and your family can be saved if you [all] believe in the Lord Jesus."
Acts 22:14-16
And he said [to me], 'The God of our forefathers has appointed you to know His will and to see the Righteous One [i.e., Jesus], and to hear His voice [speaking to you].
Romans 4:4-5
Now wages are not considered a gift if the person has to work for them, but [rather] an obligation [of his employer].
Romans 9:30-31
What shall we say then? [Simply this]: That the Gentiles, who did not attempt to become right with God [by how they lived] were made right with God, and this was the result of their faith [in Christ].
Romans 10:3-4
For they did not know about God's way of making people right with Himself, so they attempted to establish their own way. In doing this they did not submit to God's way for being made right with Him.
Hebrews 5:9
and after becoming perfectly [qualified], He became the source of never ending salvation to all those who obey Him.
1 John 5:1
Every person who believes that Jesus is the Christ [i.e., God's specially chosen one] has been [spiritually] conceived [and eventually born] by God. And everyone who [continually] loves God, who did the conceiving, also [must continually] love the person whom God has [spiritually] conceived.