KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
John 6:47–49
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John 6:47
47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
47Uerely, verely I say vnto you, Hee that beleeueth on me, hath euerlasting life.
John 6:48
48I am that bread of life.
48I am that bread of life.
John 6:49
49Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
49Your fathers did eate Manna in the wildernesse, and are dead.
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DEFINED WORDS
John 6:47
Truly; certainly; in truth or fact.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Believes, trusts, or places faith in.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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everlasting
Enduring forever or without end; eternal in the person, life, judgment, kingdom, mercy, righteousness, or other reality spoken of.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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John 6:48
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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John 6:49
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The food God gave Israel from heaven in the wilderness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Without life; deprived of life; also lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 47
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Open the full verse study36He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
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Open the full verse study3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
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Open the full verse study16¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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Open the full verse study24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
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Open the full verse study9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
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Open the full verse study18¶ He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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Open the full verse study40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Open the full verse study54Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
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Open the full verse study12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
13These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
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Open the full verse study19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
From verse 48
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Open the full verse study51I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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Open the full verse study24And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
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Open the full verse study16The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
17For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
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Open the full verse study41The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
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Open the full verse study33For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
34Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
35And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
From verse 49
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Open the full verse study17But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
18And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
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Open the full verse study5I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
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Open the full verse study3And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
4And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
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Open the full verse study31Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.
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Open the full verse study58This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
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Open the full verse study65For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Open the full verse study5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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