John 8:31
Good News Translation
So Jesus said to those who believed in him, "If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples;

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples;

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told the people who had faith in him, "If you keep on obeying what I have said, you truly are my disciples.

New American Bible
Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed.

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John 6:66-71 After this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. . . .

John 15:4-9 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . .

1 Samuel 12:14 If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord: then shall both you, and the king who reigneth over you, be followers of the Lord your God.

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.

Acts 13:43 And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews and of the strangers who served God followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

Acts 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 26:22 But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass:

Romans 2:7 To them indeed who, according to patience in good work, seek glory and honour and incorruption, eternal life:

Romans 11:22 See then the goodness and the severity of God: towards them indeed that are fallen, the severity; but towards thee, the goodness of God, if thou abide in goodness. Otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Colossians 1:23 If so ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and immoveable from the hope of the gospel which you have heard, which is preached in all the creation that is under heaven: whereof I Paul am made a minister.

1 Timothy 2:15 Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

1 Timothy 4:16 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

2 Timothy 3:14 But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned and which have been committed to thee. Knowing of whom thou hast learned them:

Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Hebrews 10:38,39 But my just man liveth by faith: but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul. . . .

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 John 2:19,24 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us. . . .

my disciples.

John 8:36 If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

John 6:55 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed.

John 15:8 In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

1 Timothy 5:3-5 Honour widows that are widows indeed. . . .

Context
The Truth will Set You Free
30When he spoke these things, many believed in him. 31Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him: If you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed. 32And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.…
Cross References
John 2:2
And Jesus also was invited, and his disciples, to the marriage.

John 15:7
If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you.

John 15:8
In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.

2 John 1:9
Whosoever revolteth and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

John 8:30
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