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John 8:32–40

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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
¶ They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
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From verse 32

  1. Romans 8:2Rank 1 from verse 32
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

  2. John 8:36Rank 2 from verse 32
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    36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

  3. John 17:17Rank 3 from verse 32
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    17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

  4. 1 Peter 2:16Rank 4 from verse 32
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    16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

  5. John 14:6Rank 5 from verse 32
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    6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

  6. Romans 6:22Rank 6 from verse 32
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    22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

  7. Romans 6:14–18Rank 7 from verse 32
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    14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

    16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

    17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

    18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

  8. Isaiah 61:1Rank 8 from verse 32
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    1THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

  9. Psalms 25:5Rank 9 from verse 32
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    5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

  10. Galatians 5:1Rank 10 from verse 32
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    1STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  11. James 1:25Rank 11 from verse 32
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    25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

  12. Proverbs 2:1–7Rank 12 from verse 32
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    1MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

    2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

    3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

    4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

    5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

    6For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

    7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

  13. 2 Corinthians 3:17–18Rank 13 from verse 32
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    17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

    18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  14. James 2:12Rank 14 from verse 32
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    12So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

  15. Galatians 5:13Rank 15 from verse 32
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    13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

  16. Jeremiah 6:16Rank 16 from verse 32
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    16Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

  17. John 16:13Rank 17 from verse 32
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    13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

  18. John 7:17Rank 18 from verse 32
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    17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

  19. Hosea 6:3Rank 19 from verse 32
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    3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

  20. Romans 8:15Rank 20 from verse 32
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    15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

  21. Isaiah 30:21Rank 21 from verse 32
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    21And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

  22. Psalms 25:8–9Rank 22 from verse 32
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    8Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

    9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

  23. Malachi 4:2Rank 23 from verse 32
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    2¶ But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

  24. Proverbs 1:23Rank 24 from verse 32
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    23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

  25. 2 Timothy 2:25–26Rank 25 from verse 32
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    25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

    26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

  26. 2 Timothy 3:7Rank 26 from verse 32
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    7Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  27. Isaiah 35:8Rank 27 from verse 32
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    8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

  28. Proverbs 4:18Rank 28 from verse 32
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    18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

  29. Proverbs 1:29Rank 29 from verse 32
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    29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

  30. Isaiah 2:3Rank 30 from verse 32
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    3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

  31. Isaiah 54:13Rank 31 from verse 32
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    13And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

  32. John 6:45Rank 32 from verse 32
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    45It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

  33. Psalms 119:45Rank 33 from verse 32
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    45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

  34. Matthew 11:29Rank 34 from verse 32
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    29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

  35. Jeremiah 31:33–34Rank 35 from verse 32
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    33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

  36. Matthew 13:11–12Rank 36 from verse 32
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    11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

    12For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

  37. Song of Solomon 1:7–8Rank 37 from verse 32
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    7Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

    8¶ If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.

From verse 33

  1. Matthew 3:9Rank 1 from verse 33
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    9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

  2. John 8:39Rank 2 from verse 33
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    39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

  3. Nehemiah 5:4–8Rank 3 from verse 33
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    4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

    6¶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

    7Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

    8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

  4. Genesis 15:13Rank 4 from verse 33
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    13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

  5. John 8:37Rank 5 from verse 33
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    37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

  6. Nehemiah 9:27–28Rank 6 from verse 33
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    27Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

    28But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

  7. Exodus 1:13–14Rank 7 from verse 33
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    13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:

    14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

  8. Ezra 9:9Rank 8 from verse 33
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    9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

  9. John 19:25Rank 9 from verse 33
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    25¶ Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.

  10. Judges 2:18Rank 10 from verse 33
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    18And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

  11. Judges 3:8Rank 11 from verse 33
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    8¶ Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan-rishathaim eight years.

  12. Leviticus 25:42Rank 12 from verse 33
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    42For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

  13. Luke 16:24–26Rank 13 from verse 33
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    24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

    25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

    26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

  14. Nehemiah 9:36–37Rank 14 from verse 33
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    36Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

    37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  15. Judges 4:3Rank 15 from verse 33
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    3And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

From verse 34

  1. Romans 6:16Rank 1 from verse 34
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    16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  2. 2 Peter 2:19Rank 2 from verse 34
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    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

  3. Proverbs 5:22Rank 3 from verse 34
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    22¶ His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  4. 1 John 3:8–10Rank 4 from verse 34
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    8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

    10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

  5. Romans 6:12Rank 5 from verse 34
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    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

  6. Romans 6:6Rank 6 from verse 34
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    6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

  7. Titus 3:3Rank 7 from verse 34
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    3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  8. Romans 6:19–20Rank 8 from verse 34
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    19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

    20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

  9. Ephesians 2:2Rank 9 from verse 34
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    2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

  10. 1 Kings 21:25Rank 10 from verse 34
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    25¶ But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

  11. Romans 7:25Rank 11 from verse 34
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    25I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

  12. Acts 8:23Rank 12 from verse 34
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    23For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

  13. Romans 7:14Rank 13 from verse 34
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    14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  14. Romans 8:21Rank 14 from verse 34
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    21Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

  15. John 3:3Rank 15 from verse 34
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    3Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

  16. Matthew 5:18Rank 16 from verse 34
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    18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

From verse 35

  1. Galatians 4:4–7Rank 1 from verse 35
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    4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

    5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

    6And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

    7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

  2. Luke 15:31Rank 2 from verse 35
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    31And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

  3. Genesis 21:10Rank 3 from verse 35
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    10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

  4. Romans 8:15–17Rank 4 from verse 35
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    15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

    16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

    17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

  5. Galatians 4:30–31Rank 5 from verse 35
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    30Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

    31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

  6. Ezekiel 46:17Rank 6 from verse 35
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    17But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.

  7. Hebrews 3:5–6Rank 7 from verse 35
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    5And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

    6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

  8. 1 Peter 1:2–5Rank 8 from verse 35
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    2Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

    3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

    5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

  9. John 14:19–20Rank 9 from verse 35
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    19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

    20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

  10. Matthew 21:41–43Rank 10 from verse 35
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    41They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

    42Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

    43Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

  11. Colossians 3:3Rank 11 from verse 35
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    3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

  12. Romans 8:29–30Rank 12 from verse 35
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    29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

    30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

From verse 36

  1. 2 Corinthians 3:17Rank 1 from verse 36
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    17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

  2. Galatians 5:1Rank 2 from verse 36
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    1STAND fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  3. Romans 8:2Rank 3 from verse 36
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

  4. John 8:31–32Rank 4 from verse 36
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    31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

    32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

  5. Luke 4:18Rank 5 from verse 36
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    18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

  6. Zechariah 9:11–12Rank 6 from verse 36
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    11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

    12¶ Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

  7. Isaiah 61:1Rank 7 from verse 36
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    1THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

  8. Isaiah 49:24–25Rank 8 from verse 36
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    24¶ Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

    25But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

  9. Psalms 119:133Rank 9 from verse 36
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    133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

  10. Psalms 119:32Rank 10 from verse 36
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    32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

  11. Psalms 19:13Rank 11 from verse 36
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    13Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

From verse 37

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:14Rank 1 from verse 37
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    14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

  2. John 8:45–47Rank 2 from verse 37
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    45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

    46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

    47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

  3. Romans 9:7Rank 3 from verse 37
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    7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

  4. John 7:1Rank 4 from verse 37
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    1AFTER these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.

  5. John 8:59Rank 5 from verse 37
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    59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

  6. Acts 13:26Rank 6 from verse 37
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    26Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

  7. John 8:43Rank 7 from verse 37
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    43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

  8. John 11:53Rank 8 from verse 37
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    53Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

  9. John 12:39–43Rank 9 from verse 37
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    39Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

    40He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

    41These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

    42¶ Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

    43For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

  10. John 7:19Rank 10 from verse 37
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    19Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

  11. Matthew 13:15Rank 11 from verse 37
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    15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

  12. John 10:31Rank 12 from verse 37
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    31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

  13. John 5:16–18Rank 13 from verse 37
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    16And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

    17¶ But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

    18Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

  14. John 5:44Rank 14 from verse 37
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    44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

  15. John 7:25Rank 15 from verse 37
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    25Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

  16. John 8:39–40Rank 16 from verse 37
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    39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

  17. John 8:6Rank 17 from verse 37
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    6This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

  18. John 8:33Rank 18 from verse 37
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    33¶ They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

  19. Matthew 13:19–22Rank 19 from verse 37
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    19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

    20But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

    21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

    22He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

From verse 38

  1. John 5:19Rank 1 from verse 38
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    19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

  2. John 8:44Rank 2 from verse 38
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    44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

  3. John 12:49–50Rank 3 from verse 38
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    49For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

    50And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.

  4. John 5:30Rank 4 from verse 38
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    30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

  5. John 8:41Rank 5 from verse 38
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    41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  6. 1 John 3:8–10Rank 6 from verse 38
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    8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

    9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

    10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

  7. John 14:10Rank 7 from verse 38
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    10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

  8. John 14:24Rank 8 from verse 38
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    24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

  9. John 3:32Rank 9 from verse 38
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    32And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.

  10. John 8:26Rank 10 from verse 38
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    26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

  11. John 17:8Rank 11 from verse 38
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    8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

  12. Matthew 3:7Rank 12 from verse 38
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    7¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

From verse 39

  1. Galatians 3:7Rank 1 from verse 39
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    7Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

  2. John 8:37Rank 2 from verse 39
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    37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

  3. Romans 9:7Rank 3 from verse 39
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    7Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

  4. Romans 2:28–29Rank 4 from verse 39
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    28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

    29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

  5. Matthew 3:9Rank 5 from verse 39
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    9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

  6. Matthew 5:45Rank 6 from verse 39
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    45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

  7. Galatians 3:29Rank 7 from verse 39
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    29And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  8. James 2:22–24Rank 8 from verse 39
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    22Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

    23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

    24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

  9. Romans 4:12Rank 9 from verse 39
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    12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

  10. Romans 4:16Rank 10 from verse 39
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    16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

From verse 40

  1. John 8:26Rank 1 from verse 40
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    26I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

  2. Galatians 4:29Rank 2 from verse 40
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    29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

  3. Galatians 4:16Rank 3 from verse 40
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    16Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

  4. Psalms 37:32Rank 4 from verse 40
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    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  5. Revelation 12:12–13Rank 5 from verse 40
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    12Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

    13And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

  6. 1 John 3:12–15Rank 6 from verse 40
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    12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

    13Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

    14We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

    15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

  7. John 8:37–38Rank 7 from verse 40
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    37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

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

  8. John 8:56Rank 8 from verse 40
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    56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

  9. Psalms 37:12Rank 9 from verse 40
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    12The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

  10. Revelation 12:17Rank 10 from verse 40
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    17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

  11. Revelation 12:4Rank 11 from verse 40
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    4And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

  12. Romans 4:12Rank 12 from verse 40
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    12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

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DEFINED WORDS

John 8:32

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

truth

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1. That which is true; conformity to fact or reality. 2. Faithfulness. 3. God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

free

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Sense 1: At liberty; released or exempt from bondage, confinement, service, obligation, dominion, guilt, or other restraint. Sense 2: Unrestrained, unobstructed, or at liberty to act or proceed. Sense 3: Willing, voluntary, liberal, or unreserved. Sense 4: Given or received without price, payment, or purchase.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:33

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

seed

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Sense 1: The reproductive substance of a plant or creature, especially what is sown to produce after its kind. Sense 2: Offspring, descendants, or lineage. Sense 3: A beginning, source, or thing sown that produces a result.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

never

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Sense 1: Not ever; at no time or in no case. Sense 2: In never so constructions, however or no matter how much.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sayest

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Second-person singular present form of say. To speak, declare, tell, or express.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

free

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Sense 1: At liberty; released or exempt from bondage, confinement, service, obligation, dominion, guilt, or other restraint. Sense 2: Unrestrained, unobstructed, or at liberty to act or proceed. Sense 3: Willing, voluntary, liberal, or unreserved. Sense 4: Given or received without price, payment, or purchase.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:34

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sin

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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

servant

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One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:35

COMBINED MEANING

servant

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One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for ever

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1. Without end; for all time. 2. Continually or permanently throughout the duration in view.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ever

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At any time; always or continually; throughout all time or for ever.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

Son

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A title of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Son of man.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:36

COMBINED MEANING

Son

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A title of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the Son of man.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

free

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Sense 1: At liberty; released or exempt from bondage, confinement, service, obligation, dominion, guilt, or other restraint. Sense 2: Unrestrained, unobstructed, or at liberty to act or proceed. Sense 3: Willing, voluntary, liberal, or unreserved. Sense 4: Given or received without price, payment, or purchase.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

indeed

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Truly, certainly, actually, or in fact; used for emphasis, confirmation, or concession before a contrast.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:37

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

seed

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Sense 1: The reproductive substance of a plant or creature, especially what is sown to produce after its kind. Sense 2: Offspring, descendants, or lineage. Sense 3: A beginning, source, or thing sown that produces a result.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

place

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Sense 1: A physical location or room. Sense 2: A position or office. Sense 3: An occasion, circumstance, or passage. Sense 4: To set, fix, locate, or establish.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

↗

The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:38

COMBINED MEANING

speak

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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:39

COMBINED MEANING

answered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of answer, meaning to reply, respond, or give account.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

Abraham

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The patriarch formerly named Abram, whom God appointed to be a father of many nations.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

works

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Plural of work: acts, deeds, labours, operations, products, or things made.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 8:40

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

told

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Past-tense or past-participial form of tell (to say, relate, inform, count, or make known).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

↗

The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

truth

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1. That which is true; conformity to fact or reality. 2. Faithfulness. 3. God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heard

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Sense 1: Perceived by the ear. Sense 2: Received or learned by report. Sense 3: Listened to, regarded, or heeded. Sense 4: Favourably attended to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Abraham

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The patriarch formerly named Abram, whom God appointed to be a father of many nations.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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8:31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

8:32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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8:33¶ They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

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8:34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

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8:35And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

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8:36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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8:37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

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

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8:39They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

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8:40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

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8:41Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

8:42Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

8:43Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

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

8:45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

8:46Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

8:47He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

8:48Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

8:49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

8:50And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

8:51Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

8:52Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

8:53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?

8:54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

8:55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

8:56Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

8:57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

8:58Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

8:59Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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