John 8:41 You are doing the works of your own father." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."

◄ John 8:41 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
You are doing the works of your own father." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."

English Standard Version
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.”

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 Bible
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 Christian Standard 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."

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

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

Young's 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;'

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:6
Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?

Isaiah 63:16
Doubtless you are our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: you, O LORD, are our father, our redeemer; your name is from everlasting.

Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

John 8:38
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stayed not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

8:41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is a liar, all his temptations are carried on by his calling evil good, and good evil, and promising freedom in sin. He is the author of all lies; whom liars resemble and obey, with whom all liars shall have their portion for ever. The special lusts of the devil are spiritual wickedness, the lusts of the mind, and corrupt reasonings, pride and envy, wrath and malice, enmity to good, and enticing others to evil. By the truth, here understand the revealed will of God as to the salvation of men by Jesus Christ, the truth Christ was now preaching, and which the Jews opposed.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

41. We be not born of fornication … we have one Father, God—meaning, as is generally allowed, that they were not an illegitimate race in point of religion, pretending only to be God's people, but were descended from His own chosen Abraham.