John 8:41
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You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

do.

John 8:38,44 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father. . . .

We be.

Isaiah 57:3-7 But draw near hither, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer, and of the harlot. . . .

Ezekiel 23:45-47 They therefore are just men: these shall judge them as adulteresses are judged, and as shedders of blood are judged: because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. . . .

Hosea 1:2 The beginning of the Lord's speaking by Hosea: and the Lord said to Hosea: Go, take thee a wife of fornications, and have of her children of fornications: for the land by fornication shall depart from the Lord.

Hosea 2:2-5 Judge your mother, judge her: because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts. . . .

Malachi 2:11 Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

we have.

Exodus 4:22 And thou shalt say to him: Thus saith the Lord: Israel is my son, my firstborn.

Deuteronomy 14:1 Be ye children of the Lord your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness for the dead;

Isaiah 63:16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Isaiah 64:8 And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

Jeremiah 3:19 But I said: How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a lovely land, the goodly inheritance of the armies of the Gentiles? And I said: Thou shalt call me father and shalt not cease to walk after me.

Jeremiah 31:20 Surely Ephraim is an honourable son to me, surely he is a tender child: for since I spoke of him, I will still remember him. Therefore are my bowels troubled for him: pitying I will pity him, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:20,21 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small? . . .

Malachi 1:6 The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Context
The Children of the Devil
40But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not. 41You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God. 42Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of myself: but he sent me.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

Isaiah 63:16
For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Isaiah 64:8
And now, O Lord, thou art our father, and we are clay: and thou art our maker, and we all are the works of thy hands.

John 8:38
I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do the things that you have seen with your father.

John 8:44
You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.

Lexicon
You
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

are doing
ποιεῖτε (poieite)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4160: (a) I make, manufacture, construct, (b) I do, act, cause. Apparently a prolonged form of an obsolete primary; to make or do.

the
τὰ (ta)
Article - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

works
ἔργα (erga)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.

of
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

your
ὑμῶν (hymōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

father.”
πατρὸς (patros)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

“We
Ἡμεῖς (Hēmeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

are not illegitimate children,”
γεγεννήμεθα (gegennēmetha)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Passive - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1080: From a variation of genos; to procreate; figuratively, to regenerate.

they declared.
Εἶπαν (Eipan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2036: Answer, bid, bring word, command. A primary verb; to speak or say.

“Our
ἔχομεν (echomen)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

only
ἕνα (hena)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 1520: One. (including the neuter Hen); a primary numeral; one.

Father
Πατέρα (Patera)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

[is] God [Himself].”
Θεόν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's Greek 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


Additional Translations
You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”

You are doing the works of your father." Therefore they said to Him, "We have not been born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Ye do the works of your father. They said [therefore] to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one father, God.

Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

You are doing the deeds of your father." "We," they replied, "are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, namely God."

You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'
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