John 6:57 {58}
Good News Translation
The living Father sent me, and because of him I live also. In the same way whoever eats me will live because of me.

New Revised Standard Version
Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.

Contemporary English Version
The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me.

New American Bible
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

the living.

Psalm 18:46 The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God, and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

Jeremiah 10:10 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves relate of us, what manner of entering in we had unto you: and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

I live.

John 5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 17:21 That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

even.

John 11:25,26 Jesus said to her: I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live: . . .

John 14:6,19 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:22 And as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive.

2 Corinthians 13:4 For although he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him: but we shall live with him by the power of God towards you.

Galatians 2:20 And I live, now not I: but Christ liveth in me. And that I live now in the flesh: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered himself for me.

Colossians 3:3,4 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. . . .

1 John 4:9 By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
56He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him. 57As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna and are dead. He that eateth this bread shall live for ever.…
Cross References
Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.

John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

John 5:26
For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 6:29
Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent.

John 6:38
Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

John 14:19
Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live.

1 Corinthians 15:45
The first man Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit.

John 6:56
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