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John 9:4
We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John 9:4 · American Standard Version
John 9:4 in other translations
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
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In context
1 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
7 and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
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