John 5:42
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
John 5:42 in other translations
| BSB | but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you. |
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| WEB | But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. |
| ASV | But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves. |
| YLT | but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves. |
| DARBY | but I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. |
| BBE | But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts. |
| Webster | But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. |
What does John 5:42 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on John 5:39-42
39-42. Search the scriptures, &c.--"In the Scriptures ye find your charter of eternal life; go search them then, and you will find that I am the Great Burden of their testimony; yet ye will not come to Me for that life eternal which you profess to find there, and of which they tell you I am the appointed Dispenser." (Compare Ac 17:11, 12). How touching and gracious are these last words! Observe here (1) The honor…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on John 5:39-44
The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention. "Ye do search the Scriptures," and ye do well to do so. They did indeed search the Scriptures, but it was with a view to their own glory. It is possible for men to be very studious in the…
John 5:42 in the original Greek
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Cross references for John 5:42
- 1 John 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
- 1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- 1 John 3:17
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
- John 2:25
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
- Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
- John 8:47
He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
- John 15:23-24
He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
- Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- John 1:47-49
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel.
- Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
- John 8:42
Jesus 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.
- John 21:17
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
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Context
- John 5:41
I receive not honour from men.
- John 5:42
But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
- John 5:43
I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
John 5:42 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas yo os conozco, que no tenéis amor de Dios en vosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | mais je vous connais, et je sais que vous n’avez pas l’amour de Dieu en vous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | sondern ich kenne euch, daß ihr die Liebe Gottes nicht in euch habt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sed cognovi vos, quia dilectionem Dei non habetis in vobis. |