17If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.


In Context

14 Not until halfway through the Feast did Jesus go up to the temple courts and begin to teach.

15 The Jews were amazed and asked, "How did this man get such learning without having studied?"

16 Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me.

17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

18 He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.

19 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"

John 7:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or [whether] I speak of myself.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If any man do the will of him; he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or whether I speak from myself.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from myself.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or — I do speak from myself.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.