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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Search {G2045} the scriptures {G1124}; for {G3754} in {G1722} them {G846} ye {G5210} think {G1380} ye have {G2192} eternal {G166} life {G2222}: and {G2532} they {G1565} are they {G1526} which testify {G3140} of {G4012} me {G1700}.

You keep examining the Tanakh because you think that in it you have eternal life. Those very Scriptures bear witness to me,

You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

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Cross-References

  • Luke 24:27 (28 votes)

    And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

  • 2 Peter 1:19 (23 votes)

    ¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

  • 2 Peter 1:21 (23 votes)

    For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake [as they were] moved by the Holy Ghost.

  • Luke 24:44 (22 votes)

    And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me.

  • Acts 26:22 (19 votes)

    Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

  • Acts 26:23 (19 votes)

    That Christ should suffer, [and] that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

  • Proverbs 8:33 (18 votes)

    Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.