Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 And now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham. 41 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. 42 Then said Jesus to them, If God were your Father, ye had loved me: for I went forth from God, and came; for I have not come of myself, but he sent me.

Cross References

Isaiah 63:16

For thou our Father, for Abraham knew us not, and Israel will not recognize us: thou Jehovah our Father redeeming us; thy name from eternity.

Isaiah 64:8

And now, O Jehovah, thou our Father; we the clay and thou forming us; and we all the work of thy hand.

John 8:38

I, what I have seen from my Father, speak: and ye, therefore, what ye have seen of your Father, do.

John 8:44

Ye are of your father the devil, and the eager desires of your father will ye do. He was slaying men from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he would speak a lie, he speaks of his own things; for he is a liar, and the father of him.

Deuteronomy 32:6

To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

Exodus 4:22

And say thou to Pharaoh, So said Jehovah, my first-born son is Israel.

Deuteronomy 14:1

Ye the sons of Jehovah your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, and ye shall not put baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Isaiah 57:3-7

And ye, come ye near here, sons of her practicing magic, seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

Jeremiah 3:19

And I said, How shall I place thee among the sons, and I will give to thee a land of desire, an inheritance of glory of the armies of nations? And saying, Ye shall call to me, My father; and ye shall rot turn back from after me.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim a precious son to me? if a child of delights? for whenever my speaking against him, remembering, I shall remember him yet; for this the bowels were put in motion to me compassionating, I will compassionate him, says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

And thou wilt take thy sons and thy daughters which thou didst bear to me, and thou wilt sacrifice them for these to eat From thy fornication is it small?

Ezekiel 23:45-47

And just men they shall judge them with the judgment of adultresses, and with the judgment of those pouring out blood; for they are adultresses, and blood in their hands.

Hosea 1:2

The beginning of the word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah will say to Hosea, Go, take to thee a wife of fornication and children of fornication; for the land committing fornication, will commit fornication from after Jehovah.

Hosea 2:2-5

Contend with your mother, contend ye, for she is not my wife, and I not her husband: for she shall put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Malachi 1:6

A son will honor the father, and the servant his lord; and if I a father, where mine honor? and if I their lord, where my fear? said Jehovah of armies to you, O priests despising my name. And ye said, In what did we despise thy name?

Malachi 2:11

Judah dealt faithlessly, and an abomination was done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah profaned the holy place of Jehovah which he loved, and married the daughter of a strange god.

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