Cross references

John 8:34

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

John 8:34 BSB

John 8:34 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 6:16 (34 votes) and 2 Peter 2:19 (23 votes). 23 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Genesis 9 to 1 John 3.

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Which verses does John 8:34 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Romans 6:1634 votes

    Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

  2. 2 Peter 2:1923 votes

    They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

  3. The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

  4. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. …

  5. Romans 6:1215 votes

    Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

  6. Romans 6:612 votes

    We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

  7. Titus 3:310 votes

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

  8. I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

  9. in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

  10. (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.

  11. Acts 8:233 votes
  12. John 3:31 vote

Which verses point to John 8:34?

The 10 strongest of 23.