John 12:47-48

Jesus Came to Save the World

47 If anyone e hears my words and does not keep them, f I do not judge him; for g I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 h The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; i the word that I have spoken will judge him j on the last day.

  1. Cross References
    John 3:36
    Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
  2. Cross References
    John 8:15
    You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
  3. Cross References
    John 3:17
    For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
    John 4:42
    They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.
  4. Cross References
    Luke 10:16
    "The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:18 - 19
    I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
  6. Cross References
    Romans 2:16
    On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
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