John 5:45 Cross References - Murdock

⁴⁵ Do ye suppose, that I shall accuse you before the Father? There is one that will accuse you, that Moses, on whom ye rely.

⁷ They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put her away? ⁸ He said to them: Moses, on account of the hardness of your heart, permitted you to divorce your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

¹⁹ Did not Moses give you the law? Yet no one of you observeth the law.

⁵ And in the law of Moses, God hath commanded us to stone such persons. What therefore dost thou say? ⁶ And this they said, tempting him, so that they might have ground to accuse him. But Jesus having stooped down, was writing on the ground.

⁹ And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning with the older; and the woman was left, alone where she had stood in the midst.

²⁸ But they reproached him, and said to him: Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses. ²⁹ And we know that God conversed with Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence he is.

¹² for those without law, who sin, will also perish without law; and those under the law, who sin, will be judged by the law,

¹⁷ But if thou, who art called a Jew, and reposest thyself on the law, and gloriest in God, ¹⁸ that thou knowest his good pleasure, and discernest obligations, because thou art instructed in the law; ¹⁹ and hast confidence in thyself, that thou art a guide to the blind, and a light to them who are in darkness, ²⁰ and an instructor of those lacking knowledge, and a preceptor to the young; and thou hast the appearance of knowledge and of verity in the law : ²¹ Thou therefore, who teachest others, teachest thou not thyself? And thou who teachest that men must not steal, dost thou steal? ²² And thou who sayest, Men must not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? And thou who contemnest idols, dost thou plunder the sanctuary? ²³ And thou who gloriest in the law, dost thou, by acting contrary to the law, insult God himself? ²⁴ For, the name of God, as it is written, is reviled among the Gentiles on your account. ²⁵ For circumcision profiteth, indeed, if thou fulfillest the law: but if thou departest from the law, thy circumcision becometh uncircumcision. ²⁶ And if uncircumcision should keep the precepts of the law, would not that uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision? ²⁷ And the uncircumcision, which from its nature fulfilleth the law, will judge thee; who, with the scripture, and with circumcision, transgressest against the law. ²⁸ For he is not a Jew, who is so in what is external: nor is that circumcision, which is visible in the flesh. ²⁹ But he is a Jew, who is so in what is hidden: and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not from men, but from God.

¹⁹ Now we know, that whatever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be guilty before God. ²⁰ Wherefore, by the deeds of the law, no flesh is justified before him: for, by the law, sin is known.

⁹ And I, without the law, was alive formerly; but when the commandment came, sin became alive, and I died; ¹⁰ and the commandment of life was found by me to be unto death. ¹¹ For sin, by the occasion which it found by means of the commandment, seduced me; and thereby slew me. ¹² Wherefore, the law is holy; and the commandment is holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ Did that which is good, therefore, become death to me? Far be it. But sin, that it might be seen to be sin, perfected death in me by means of that good law; that sin might the more be condemned, by means of the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know, that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, and sold to sin.

⁵ For Moses describeth the righteousness, which is by the law, thus: Whoever shall do these things, shall live by them. ⁶ But the righteousness which is by faith, saith thus: Thou shalt not say in thy heart, Who ascendeth to heaven, and bringeth Messiah down? ⁷ Or, Who descendeth to the abyss of the grave, and bringeth up Messiah from the place of the dead? ⁸ But what saith it? The thing is near to thy mouth, and to thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we proclaim. ⁹ And if thou shalt confess with thy mouth our Lord Jesus, and shalt believe with thy heart, that God hath raised him from the dead; thou shalt live. ¹⁰ For the heart that believeth in him, is justified; and the mouth that confesseth him, is restored to life.

⁷ Now if the ministration of death was engraved upon stones in writing, and was so glorious that the children of Israel could not look on the face of Moses, on account of the glory upon his face which vanished away; ⁸ how then shall not the ministration of the Spirit be still more glorious? ⁹ For if there was glory in the ministration of condemnation, how much more shall the ministration of justification excel in glory? ¹⁰ For that which was glorious, was as if not glorious, in comparison with this which excelleth in glory. ¹¹ For if that which is abolished was glorious, much more must that which abideth be glorious.

¹⁰ For they who are of the deeds of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who shall not do every thing written in this law.