Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
I declare what I've seen in my Father's presence, and you're doing what you've heard from your father."
A Conservative Version
I speak what I have seen from my Father, and ye therefore do what ye have seen from your father.
American Standard Version
I speak the things which I have seen with my Father: and ye also do the things which ye heard from your father.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
I am telling [you] about what I have seen in my Father's presence; but you [should] do what you have heard from your father."
Anderson New Testament
I speak what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
Bible in Basic English
I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.
Common New Testament
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your Father."
Daniel Mace New Testament
what I have learnt from my father, that I tell: and what you have learnt from your father, that you do.
Darby Translation
I speak what I have seen with my Father, and ye then do what ye have seen with your father.
Godbey New Testament
Whatsoever I have seen with the Father I speak: you therefore are doing the things which you heard with your father.
Goodspeed New Testament
It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."
John Wesley New Testament
I speak that which I have seen with my father, and ye do that which ye have heard from your father.
Julia Smith Translation
I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do.
King James 2000
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I speak [the things] that I have seen with the Father; so also you do [the things] that you have heard from the Father."
Modern King James verseion
I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you, then, do what you have seen with your father.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I speak that I have seen with my father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father."
Moffatt New Testament
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father."
Montgomery New Testament
"I am declaring what I have seen with the Father, and you are acting as you have learned from your father."
NET Bible
I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!"
New Heart English Bible
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have heard from your father."
Noyes New Testament
I speak what I have seen with the Father; and ye accordingly do what ye have seen with your father.
Sawyer New Testament
What I have seen with my Father I speak, and you also do what you have heard from your father.
The Emphasized Bible
What things, I, have seen with the Father, I am speaking; Ye, also, then, what things ye have heard from your father, are doing. -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I speak what I have seen with my Father: and ye do therefore what ye have seen with your father.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I tell you what I have myself seen in the presence of my Father; and you, in the same way, do what you have learned from your father."
Webster
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
Weymouth New Testament
The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father."
Williams New Testament
I am telling you what I have seen in my Father's presence, and you are practicing what you have learned from your father."
World English Bible
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."
Worrell New Testament
I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; and ye, therefore, do the things which ye heard from your father.
Worsley New Testament
I speak that which I have seen with my Father, and ye do what ye have seen with your father.
Youngs Literal Translation
I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'
Themes
Abraham » How regarded by his descendants
Jesus Christ » The words that jesus Christ spoke
Interlinear
Horao
οὖν
Oun
Usage: 417
Hos
ὅς ἥ ὅ
Hos
which, whom, that, who, whose, what, that which, whereof,
Usage: 980
Para
παρά
Para
Usage: 145
References
Morish
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 8:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Truth Will Set You Free
37
I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
38
Names
Cross References
John 5:19
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
John 8:41
You are doing the works your father did." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father--even God."
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 3:32
He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
John 5:30
"I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
John 14:24
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
John 8:26
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment--what to say and what to speak.
John 17:8
For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
1 John 3:8-10
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.