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 You seek to kill me. I told you the truth! I heard it from God. Abraham did not do this. 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: If God were your Father you would love me. I came from God! I have not come from myself. He sent me!

Cross References

Isaiah 63:16

You are our Father. Even though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not pay attention to us, O Jehovah, you are our Father. Your name is our Defender From Everlasting.

Isaiah 64:8

But now, Jehovah, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter. We are the work of your hands.

John 8:38

I speak the things that I have seen and heard when I was with my Father. You also do the things that you heard from your father.

John 8:44

You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay Jehovah, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father and creator, who made you and formed you?

Exodus 4:22

Say to Pharaoh: 'Thus says Jehovah, Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. Do not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

Isaiah 57:3-7

But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute!

Jeremiah 3:19

I wanted to treat you like children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful property among the nations. I thought you would call me Father and not turn away from me.

Jeremiah 31:20

Ephraim, O Ephraim my dear delightful son! Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him. My heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him, declares Jehovah.

Ezekiel 16:20-21

You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

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 Jehovah first spoke through Hosea, Jehovah said to Hosea, Go and marry an adulterous wife and have children with her for the land commits flagrant adultery. They have abandoned Jehovah.

Hosea 2:2-5

Plead with your mother (your nation), for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!

Malachi 1:6

Jehovah of Hosts declares to the priests: Children honor their parents and servants honor their masters. I am your father. Why do you not honor me? I am your master. Why do you not respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask: How have we despised you?

Malachi 2:11

The people of Judah have done wrong. They deal treacherously and committed an abomination in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

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