John 8:41
John 8:39-41 The Message (MSG)
They were indignant. “Our father is Abraham!” Jesus said, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would have been doing the things Abraham did. And yet here you are trying to kill me, a man who has spoken to you the truth he got straight from God! Abraham never did that sort of thing. You persist in repeating the works of your father.” They said, “We’re not bastards. We have a legitimate father: the one and only God.”
John 8:41 King James Version (KJV)
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
John 8:41 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
You are doing the deeds of your father.” They said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God.”
John 8:41 New Century Version (NCV)
So you are doing the things your own father did.” But they said, “We are not like children who never knew who their father was. God is our Father; he is the only Father we have.”
John 8:41 American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
John 8:41 New International Version (NIV)
You are doing the works of your own father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
John 8:41 New King James Version (NKJV)
You do the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”
John 8:41 Amplified Bible (AMP)
You are doing the works of your [own] father.” They said to Him, “We are not illegitimate children; we have one [spiritual] Father: God.”
John 8:41 New Living Translation (NLT)
No, you are imitating your real father.” They replied, “We aren’t illegitimate children! God himself is our true Father.”