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John 3:12
If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John 3:12 · World English Bible
John 3:12 in other translations
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
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In context
9 Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?
11 Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.
12 If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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