Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in John 9:31

“Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.”

John 9:31 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in John 9:31, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of John 9. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.

30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Proverbs 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
  • Isaiah 1:15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
  • Micah 3:4Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
  • Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
  • Psalms 145:19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
  • Zechariah 7:13Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
  • Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
  • Proverbs 21:13Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.
  • Psalms 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
  • 1 John 3:21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
  • Jeremiah 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pes…
  • Ezekiel 8:18Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  • Job 27:8For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

More to meet God in John

John 3:16John 14:6John 8:32John 10:10John 16:33John 11:25John 13:34John 1:1John 3:17John 1:12John 14:27John 13:7John 15:13John 15:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.