He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    He that eateth my flesshe and drynketh my bloude dwelleth in me and I in him.

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    Hee that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

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Cross-references (14)

Passages linked to John 6:56 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 1 John 3:24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
  • John 15:4-5 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
  • Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.
  • John 14:20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
  • Psalms 91:9 Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
  • John 17:21-23 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me. The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
  • John 14:23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • 1 John 4:15-16 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
  • Lamentations 3:24 “Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
  • 2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
  • 1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
  • Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
  • Psalms 90:1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
  • Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 56. He who eateth my flesh. This is another…

56. He who eateth my flesh. This is another confirmation; for while he alone has life in himself, he shows how we may enjoy it, that is, by eating his flesh; as if he had affirmed that there is no other way in which he can become ours, than by our faith being directed to his flesh. For no one will ever come to Christ as God, who despises him as man; and, therefore, if you wish to have any interest in Christ, you must take care, above all things, that you do not disdain his flesh.

Dwelleth in me, and I in him. When he says that he dwelleth in us, the meaning is the same as if he had said, that the only bond of union, and the way by which he becomes one with us, is, when our faith relies on his death. We may likewise infer from it, that he is not now speaking of the outward symbol, which many unbelievers receive equally with believers, and yet continue separated from Christ. It enables us also to refute the dream of those who say, that Judas received the body of Christ as well as the other apostles, when Christ gave the bread to all; for as it is a display of ignorance to limit this doctrine to the outward sign, so we ought to remember what I have formerly said, that the doctrine which is here taught is sealed in the Lord’s Supper. Now, it is certain, in the first place, that Judas never was a member of Christ; secondly, it is highly unreasonable to imagine the flesh of Christ to be dead and destitute of the Holy Spirit; and, lastly, it is a mockery to dream of any way of eating the flesh of Christ without faith, since faith alone is the mouth — so to speak — and the stomach of the soul.

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He that acknowledgeth and receiveth me, though he seeth…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain This is that bread which came down from heaven,....…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 56. Dwelleth in me, and I in him.]…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Dwelleth in me - Is truly and intimately connected…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain He that eateth . . . dwelleth in me…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 56. dwelleth in me, and I in him] Or,…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (56) Dwelleth in me, and I in him.—Abideth gives…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood,…

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