John 8:47
Good News Translation
He who comes from God listens to God's words. You, however, are not from God, and that is why you will not listen."

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever is from God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is that you are not from God.”

Contemporary English Version
Anyone who belongs to God will listen to his message. But you refuse to listen, because you don't belong to God.

New American Bible
Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not listen, because you do not belong to God.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

John 8:37,43,45 I know that you are the children of Abraham: but you seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. . . .

John 1:12,13 But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name. . . .

John 6:45,46,65 It is written in the prophets: And they shall all be taught of God. Every one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned cometh forth me. . . .

John 10:26,27 But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep. . . .

John 17:6-8 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word. . . .

1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.

1 John 4:1-6 Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. . . .

1 John 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

2 John 1:9 Whosoever revolteth and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

3 John 1:11 Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.

Context
The Children of the Devil
46Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me: 47He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God. 48The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?…
Cross References
Daniel 12:10
Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.

John 5:25
Amen, amen, I say unto you, that the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

John 10:26
But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

John 12:48
He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

John 18:37
Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

1 John 4:6
We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

John 8:46
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