The Best verses in john (ESV)

John

•   John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

•   John 1:3 "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

•   John 1:4–5 “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

•   John 1:12 “to all...who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God”

•   John 1:18 “No one has ever seen God; God the only Son, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.”

•   John 1:23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.

•   John 1:29 “The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!’”

•   John 1:34 "And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”

•   John 1:40–41 Andrew…first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).

•   John 2:11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

•   John 2:15 making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple…he poured out the coins of the money-changers &overturned their tables

•   John 2:19–21 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”…he was speaking about the temple of his body.

•   John 2:25 He “needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man”

•   John 3:3 “Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’”

•   John 3:8 The wind blows…but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.

•   John 3:14–15 so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

•   John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

•   John 3:18 whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

•   John 3:19 the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

•   John 3:23 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized

•   John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.

•   Jn3:36 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

•   John 4:14 The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

•   John 4:24, 42 “God is spirit, &those who worship him must worship in spirit &truth. …we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

•   John 4:25–26 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ)”…Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”

•   John 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.”

•   John 4:42 “we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

•   "Do you want to be healed?" ~Jesus (John 5:6)

•   John 5:14 "Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, 'See you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you”

•   John 5:18 "he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.”

•   John 5:23 “Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.”

•   John5:24 whoever hears my word &believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life

•   John 5:28–29 those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

•   John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”

•   Jn 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me &whoever comes to me I will never cast out

•   John 6:44,63 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him...It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.

•   John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

•   Jn6:60,66 they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”...After this many of his disciples turned back &no longer walked w/him

•   John 6:68-69 “Lord…You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”

•   John 7:24 “Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

•   John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’

•   Jn8:12 I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

•   John 8:31-32 “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

•   John 8:44 the devil…was a murderer from the beginning…he is a liar and the father of lies.

•   John 8:47, 51 “Whoever is of God hears the words of God. … Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”

•   John 9:3 “Jesus answered, ‘It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.’”

•   John 9:4 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

•   John 9:25, 38 One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see. … He said, ‘Lord, I believe,’ and he worshiped him.

•   John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

•   John 10:27 “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

•   John 11:9 “Jesus answered… ‘If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.’”

•   John 11:25 “Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live’”

•   John 12:6 [Judas Iscariot] he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.”

•   Jn 12:10–11 the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death…b/c on account of him many of the Jews were going away & believing in Jesus

•   John 12:19 "Look, the world has gone after him.”

•   John 12:25–26 "Whoever loves his life loses it, & whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life”

•   Jn13:1 Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world…having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

•   John 13:34 “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”

•   Jn13:35 “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

•   John 14:3 "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 14:6 “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

•   John 14:12 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

•   Jn 15:2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, &every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit

•   John 15:5 Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

•   John 15:8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

•   John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

•   John 15:12–13 “love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

•   Jn15:13-14 Greater love has no one than this,that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you

•   John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide

•   John 15:18-20 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. …If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you”

•   John 15:26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth…he will bear witness about me.

•   John 16:1 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.”

•   John 16:7–8 the Helper…when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment

•   John 16:16 “A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”

•   Jn16:33 ... in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.

•   John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

•   John 17:5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

•   John 17:8 I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them

•   John 17:9 "I am praying for them...for those whom you have given me”

•   John 17:12 not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled

•   John 17:15 "I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.”

•   John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth”

•   John 17:21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, & I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe

•   John 17:26 I made known to them your name…that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

•   John 18:37 “for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

•   John 19:30 Jesus said, “'It is finished,' and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit."

•   John 19:38 Joseph...was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus

•   John 20:21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

•   John 20:27 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”

•   John 20:29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

•   Jn20:31 these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, &that by believing you may have life in his name

•   John 21:12 Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.

•   John 21:22 "You follow me!”

•   John 21:25 "Now there are also many other things that Jesus did."