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Contemporary English Version

John 8:32

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gospel;   Liberty;   Perseverance;   Regeneration;   Righteous;   Servant;   Truth;   Wisdom;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christianity;   Fuller Revelation;   Knowledge;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   Liberty;   Liberty-Bondage;   Revelation;   Spiritual;   The Topic Concordance - Freedom/liberty;   Truth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Bondage, Spiritual;   Liberty, Christian;   Perseverance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Freedom;   John, gospel of;   Truth;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Disciples;   Human Free Will;   Jews in the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of God;   Liberty;   Love, Lover, Lovely, Beloved;   Marriage;   Truth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Children of God;   Common Life;   Consciousness;   Death of Christ;   Deceit, Deception, Guile;   Error;   Faith ;   Freedom of the Will;   James ;   John, Gospel of (Ii. Contents);   Liberty (2);   Metaphors;   Obscurity;   Promise (2);   Righteous, Righteousness;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Tithes ;   Truth (2);   Worldliness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Prison;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Liberty;   Regeneration;   Satan;   Truth;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 18;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 21;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and shall knowe the trueth: and the trueth shall make you free.
Hebrew Names Version
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
International Standard Version
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."Romans 6:14,18, 22; 8:2; James 1:25; 2:12;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
New Century Version
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Update Bible Version
and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Webster's Bible Translation
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
English Standard Version
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
World English Bible
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Weymouth's New Testament
and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and ye schulen knowe the treuthe, and the treuthe schal make you fre.
English Revised Version
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Berean Standard Bible
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Amplified Bible
"And you will know the truth [regarding salvation], and the truth will set you free [from the penalty of sin]."
American Standard Version
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible in Basic English
And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.
Complete Jewish Bible
you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Darby Translation
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
Etheridge Translation
and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall liberate you.
Murdock Translation
And ye will know the truth; and the truth will make you free.
King James Version (1611)
And ye shall know the Trueth, and the Trueth shall make you free.
New Living Translation
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
New Life Bible
You will know the truth and the truth will make you free."
New Revised Standard
and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And shall know the trueth, and the trueth shall make you free.
George Lamsa Translation
And you will know the truth, and that very truth will make you free.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And ye shall know the truth, and, the truth, shall make you free.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.
Revised Standard Version
and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye shall knowe the trueth, and the trueth shall make you free.
Good News Translation
you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Christian Standard Bible®
You will know the truth,
King James Version
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Lexham English Bible
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Literal Translation
And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Young's Literal Translation
and the truth shall make you free.'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and ye shall knowe the trueth, and the trueth shal make you fre.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and the truth shall make you free.
New English Translation
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
New King James Version
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Simplified Cowboy Version
Only then will you know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Legacy Standard Bible
and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Contextual Overview

31 Jesus told the people who had faith in him, "If you keep on obeying what I have said, you truly are my disciples. 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." 33 They answered, "We are Abraham's children! We have never been anyone's slaves. How can you say we will be set free?" 34 Jesus replied: I tell you for certain that anyone who sins is a slave of sin! 35 And slaves don't stay in the family forever, though the Son will always remain in the family. 36 If the Son gives you freedom, you are free! 37 I know that you are from Abraham's family. Yet you want to kill me, because my message isn't really in your hearts.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye shall: John 6:45, John 7:17, John 14:6, John 16:13, Psalms 25:5, Psalms 25:8, Psalms 25:9, Proverbs 1:23, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 2:1-7, Proverbs 4:18, Song of Solomon 1:7, Song of Solomon 1:8, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 35:8, Isaiah 54:13, Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 31:33, Jeremiah 31:34, Hosea 6:3, Malachi 4:2, Matthew 11:29, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 13:12, 2 Timothy 3:7

and the: John 8:36, John 17:17, Psalms 119:45, Isaiah 61:1, Romans 6:14-18, Romans 6:22, Romans 8:2, Romans 8:15, 2 Corinthians 3:17, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Galatians 5:13, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:26, James 1:25, James 2:12, 1 Peter 2:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:8 - clear Leviticus 25:10 - proclaim Leviticus 25:41 - then shall Psalms 25:12 - him Psalms 50:23 - to him Psalms 119:32 - enlarge Proverbs 8:34 - watching Isaiah 26:13 - other Daniel 9:13 - that we John 1:17 - grace John 17:6 - they Acts 2:42 - they Acts 11:23 - and exhorted Acts 13:43 - persuaded Acts 14:22 - exhorting Romans 6:18 - made 1 Corinthians 7:22 - is the 1 Corinthians 15:2 - unless 1 Timothy 4:3 - believe 1 John 2:27 - ye shall 2 John 1:1 - known Revelation 2:26 - keepeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall know the truth,.... Either the truth of the Gospel, the truth as it is in Jesus; meaning, that they should have a larger knowledge of it, while others are ever learning, and never come to the knowledge of the truth; but the spirit of truth should lead them into all truth, and cause them to grow and increase in Gospel light and knowledge; or Jesus himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life; and the sense is, that they should know more of him, of the dignity of his person, of the nature and usefulness of his offices; of the efficacy of his blood, the excellency of his righteousness, and the fulness of his grace, and that for themselves:

and the truth shall make you free; from ignorance and error, and the prejudices of education, under which the whole nation laboured, and from the thraldom of the law.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall know the truth - See the notes at John 7:17.

The truth shall make you free - The truth here means the Christian religion. Compare Galatians 3:1; Colossians 1:6. The doctrines of the true religion shall make you free - that is, it will free you from the slavery of evil passions, corrupt propensities, and grovelling views. The condition of a sinner is that of a captive or a slave to sin. He is one who serves and obeys the dictates of an evil heart and the promptings of an evil nature, Romans 6:16-17; “Ye were the servants of sin;” - Romans 6:19; “Ye have yielded your members servants unto iniquity;” - Romans 6:20; Romans 7:6, Romans 7:8,Romans 7:11; Romans 8:21; Acts 8:23; “Thou art in the - bond of iniquity;” Galatians 4:3, Galatians 4:9. The effect of the gospel is to break this hard bondage to sin and to set the sinner free. We learn from this that religion is not slavery or oppression. It is true freedom.

“He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,

And all are slaves beside.” - Cowper.

The service of God is freedom from degrading vices and carnal propensities; from the slavery of passion and inordinate desires. It is a cheerful and delightful surrender of ourselves to Him whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 32. Ye shall know the truth — Shall have a constant experimental knowledge of its power and efficacy.

And the truth shall make you free. — It was a maxim of the Jews, "That no man was free, but he who exercised himself in the meditation of the law." No man is truly free, but he in whose heart the power of sin is destroyed, and who has received the Spirit of adoption, through which he cries, Abba! Father! See Romans 8:15. The bondage of sin is the most grievous bondage; and freedom from its guilt and influence is the greatest liberty.


 
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