John 5:39 Cross References - NSB

³⁹ »You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me.

¹⁸ »Take these words of mine to heart and keep them in mind. Write them down, tie them around your wrist, and wear them as headbands to remind you. ¹⁹ »Teach them to your children! Talk about them in your home and away. Speak of them when you lie down or get up. ²⁰ »Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

⁴⁷ »It is not an idle talk! Indeed it is your life. By this word you will prolong your days in the land you to possess on the other side of the Jordan.«

⁸ »This Book of the Law will not depart out of your mouth. You must meditate (intensely study) (think deeply) on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

¹⁸ »When he first sits on the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll taken in the presence of the Levitical priests. ¹⁹ »He should keep it with him. He should read from it all the days of his life. In this way he will learn to respect Jehovah his God by carefully observing all the words of this Law and these statutes.

¹⁵ »Jehovah your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. Listen to him!

¹⁸ »‘I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you. I will put my words in his mouth. He will speak to them all that I command him.

² But his delight is in the law of Jehovah (YHWH), and on his law he meditates (ponders) (speaks softly with deep thought) (studies) (contemplates) day and night.

¹¹ You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. It is pleasant to be at your right hand forever.

⁴ He asked you for life. You gave him a long life, forever and ever (perpetuity) (long lasting time).

⁹ For with you is the fountain (source) of life. In your light we see light. (Jeremiah 2:13) (Acts 17:28)

¹¹ Your word I have treasured in my heart that I may not sin against you.

⁹⁷ O How I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. ⁹⁸ Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine. ⁹⁹ I have more insight than all my teachers, for your laws are my meditation.

³ It is like the dew of Hermon coming down upon the mountains of Zion. For there Jehovah commanded the blessing. It is life forever.

³³ »Hear instruction, do not refuse it and be wise. ³⁴ »Blessed is the man who listens to me. He watches daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp. The law is light. Reproofs for instruction are the way of life.

²⁰ They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.

¹⁶ Search Jehovah’s book and read it out loud. Not one of these animals will be missing. Not one will lack a mate, because Jehovah has commanded it, and his Spirit will gather them together.

⁹ »Wise people are put to shame, confused, and trapped. They have rejected the word of Jehovah. They do not really have any wisdom.

² »Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

¹⁶ One man said: »Master, what good thing must I do, so that I may have eternal life?« ¹⁷ Jesus answered him: »Why are you questioning me about what is good? There is one who is good. If you desire life, obey the Law.« ¹⁸ The man replied: »Which law?« And Jesus said: »Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false witness, ¹⁹ »Honor your father and your mother, and Love your neighbor as yourself.« ²⁰ The man said to him: »I have done all these things; what more is there?«

²⁹ Jesus answered: »You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God.

¹⁰ »Have you not read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected was made the chief corner stone.’ (Psalm 118:22, 23)

²⁵ A lawyer stood up to test him. He asked: »Teacher what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?« ²⁶ He said: »What is written in the law? How do you read it?« ²⁷ He answered: »Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself.« (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18) ²⁸ He told him: »You answered correctly, do this and you will live.« ²⁹ Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: »Who is my neighbor?«

²⁹ »Abraham said: Your brothers have Moses and the prophets to warn them. They should listen to them.

³¹ »Abraham said: If they would not listen to Moses and the prophets, they would not listen to someone from the dead.«

²⁷ He explained to them all the Scriptures about the things concerning him. He spoke about Moses and all the prophets.

⁴⁴ He said: »These are my words that I spoke to you, while I was yet with you. All things must be fulfilled. They are things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning me.«

⁴⁵ Philip found Nathanael, and said to him: »We have found the person Moses and the prophets wrote about in the Law and God’s word. It is Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.«

³² »There is another who testifies about me. I know that his evidence about me is true.

³⁶ »The testimony I have is greater than that of John. The works I do are the works the Father gave me to accomplish. They testify that the Father has sent me.

⁴⁶ »It is a fact! If you believed Moses you would believe me. He wrote about me!

⁵² They replied: »Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet comes out of Galilee.«

³² The Scripture he read was this: »He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer so he did not open his mouth. ³³ »In his humiliation his judgment was taken away. Who will declare his generation? For his life is taken from the earth.« ³⁴ The eunuch asked Philip: »Please tell me of whom is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?« ³⁵ Then Philip began at the same Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

¹¹ The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.

²² »Having obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those that the prophets and Moses said should come. ²³ »That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first to rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the nations.«

²⁷ »King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.«

²⁷ »The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not know Jesus. They fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath when they condemned Jesus.

² He promised this long ago through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.

¹⁷ If you are a Jew in name and are resting on the law and taking glory in God, ¹⁸ you know his will. You approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.

² Much in every way. First they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.

¹⁴ Continue in the things you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. ¹⁵ From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed) ¹⁷ Thus the man of God may be completely equipped for every good work.

¹⁶ They desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Because of this, God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared a city for them!

³⁵ Women received their dead by a resurrection, and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection:

¹⁰ Concerning this salvation the prophets inquired and searched diligently! They prophesied about the grace that should come to you: ¹¹ searching what time or what manner of time the spirit of Christ that was in them did point to, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.

¹⁹ We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God’s Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts. ²⁰ Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation. ²¹ For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me: »Do not do that. I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers. You have the witness from Jesus: worship God! For the witness from Jesus is the spirit (mind-set) of prophecy.«