What Does the Bible Say About Only What My Father Told Me?

John 12:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.

John 17:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. ...

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 5:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Honor widows who are truly widows.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

John 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

John 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

John 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?

John 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

John 7:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know. I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”

John 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

John 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 4:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

John 3:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He was in the beginning with God.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

29 Bible Verses about Only What My Father Told Me

John 12:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 17:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 5:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 4:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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29 Bible Verses about Only What My Father Told Me

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John 12:49 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 17:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 5:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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John 14:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 4:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 103:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes