Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.”

King James Version

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Holman Bible

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

International Standard Version

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

A Conservative Version

Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We were not begotten from fornication. We have one Father, God.

American Standard Version

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Amplified

You are doing the works of your [own] father.” They said to Him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one [spiritual] Father: God.”

An Understandable Version

You people are doing what your father does." They said to Him, "We were not born illegitimately; the only Father we have is God."

Anderson New Testament

You do the works of your father. They said to him: We were not born of lewdness; we have one father, God.

Bible in Basic English

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

Common New Testament

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father God."

Daniel Mace New Testament

your actions are like your father. at this they reply'd, we are no bastards; we have but one father, even God.

Darby Translation

Ye do the works of your father. They said therefore to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

Godbey New Testament

You are doing the works of your father. They said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.

Goodspeed New Testament

You are doing as your father does." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one father, God himself."

John Wesley New Testament

Abraham did not thus. Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye do the works of your father. Then said they to him, We have not been born of fornication; for we have one Father, God.

King James 2000

You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

Modern King James verseion

You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to Him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, even God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye do the deeds of your father." Then said they unto him, "We were not born of fornication. We have one father which is God."

Moffatt New Testament

You do the deeds of your father." They said to him, "We are no bastards: we have one father, even God."

Montgomery New Testament

"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."

NET Bible

You people are doing the deeds of your father." Then they said to Jesus, "We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself."

New Heart English Bible

You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

Noyes New Testament

Ye do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.

Sawyer New Testament

You do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born by fornication, we have one father, God.

The Emphasized Bible

Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him - We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we - God.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We are not born of whoredom; we have one Father, even God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."

Webster

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Weymouth New Testament

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

Williams New Testament

You are practicing what your real father does." They said to Him, "We are not illegitimate children; we have one Father, even God."

World English Bible

You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

Worrell New Testament

Ye do the works of your father." They say to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father??od."

Worsley New Testament

But ye do the works of your father. Then said they unto Him, We are not born of fornication, we have one Father, even God.

Youngs Literal Translation

ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye
ὑμείς 
Humeis 
ye, ye yourselves, you, not tr
Usage: 120

do
ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

the deeds
ἔργον 
Ergon 
Usage: 130

of your
ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

to him

Usage: 0

We
ἡμεῖς 
hemeis 
we, us, we ourselves
Usage: 120

be
γεννάω 
Gennao 
Usage: 84

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

γεννάω 
Gennao 
Usage: 84

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

πορνεία 
Porneia 
Usage: 21

we have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

one
εἷς 
heis 
one, a, other, some, not tr,
Usage: 188

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

The Priority Of Jesus Over Abraham

40 But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. 41 You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.



Cross References

Isaiah 63:16

For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us
And Israel does not recognize us.
You, O Lord, are our Father,
Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O Lord, You are our Father,
We are the clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the work of Your hand.

John 8:38

I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father.”

John 8:44

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Deuteronomy 32:6

“Do you thus repay the Lord,
O foolish and unwise people?
Is not He your Father who has bought you?
He has made you and established you.

Exodus 4:22

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Isaiah 57:3-7

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:19

“Then I said,
‘How I would set you among My sons
And give you a pleasant land,
The most beautiful inheritance of the nations!’
And I said, ‘You shall call Me, My Father,
And not turn away from following Me.’

Jeremiah 31:20

“Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a delightful child?
Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,
I certainly still remember him;
Therefore My heart yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

“Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

Ezekiel 23:45-47

But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry; for the land commits flagrant harlotry, forsaking the Lord.”

Hosea 2:2-5

“Contend with your mother, contend,
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away her harlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,

Malachi 1:6

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

Malachi 2:11

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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