Parallel Verses
- World English Bible - But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.
- 新标点和合本 - 时候将到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。”
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 时候将到，现在就是了，那真正敬拜父的，要用心灵和诚实敬拜他，因为父要这样的人敬拜他。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 时候将到，现在就是了，那真正敬拜父的，要用心灵和诚实敬拜他，因为父要这样的人敬拜他。
- 当代译本 - 时候快到了，现在就是，真正敬拜父的，要用心灵 、按真理敬拜祂，因为父寻找的正是这样敬拜祂的人。
- 圣经新译本 - 然而时候将到，现在就是了，那靠着圣灵按着真理敬拜父的，才是真正敬拜的人；因为父在寻找这样敬拜他的人。
- 中文标准译本 - 然而，时候就要到了，现在就是了！那时真正敬拜的人，要在灵里和真理中敬拜父，因为父就是想要这样的人来敬拜他。
- 现代标点和合本 - 时候将到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 时候将到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。
- New International Version - Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
- New International Reader's Version - But a new time is coming. In fact, it is already here. True worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth. They are the kind of worshipers the Father is looking for.
- English Standard Version - But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.
- New Living Translation - But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.
- The Message - “It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
- Christian Standard Bible - But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.
- New American Standard Bible - But a time is coming, and even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
- New King James Version - But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
- Amplified Bible - But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.
- American Standard Version - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.
- King James Version - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
- New English Translation - But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
- 新標點和合本 - 時候將到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心靈和誠實拜他，因為父要這樣的人拜他。」
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 時候將到，現在就是了，那真正敬拜父的，要用心靈和誠實敬拜他，因為父要這樣的人敬拜他。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 時候將到，現在就是了，那真正敬拜父的，要用心靈和誠實敬拜他，因為父要這樣的人敬拜他。
- 當代譯本 - 時候快到了，現在就是，真正敬拜父的，要用心靈 、按真理敬拜祂，因為父尋找的正是這樣敬拜祂的人。
- 聖經新譯本 - 然而時候將到，現在就是了，那靠著聖靈按著真理敬拜父的，才是真正敬拜的人；因為父在尋找這樣敬拜他的人。
- 呂振中譯本 - 但時候必到，如今就是了，這時真的敬拜者就要用心靈和「真實」敬拜父；因為父正尋找這樣敬拜他的人。
- 中文標準譯本 - 然而，時候就要到了，現在就是了！那時真正敬拜的人，要在靈裡和真理中敬拜父，因為父就是想要這樣的人來敬拜他。
- 現代標點和合本 - 時候將到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心靈和誠實拜他，因為父要這樣的人拜他。
- 文理和合譯本 - 時將至、今是矣、誠於崇拜者、將以神以誠拜父、蓋父欲如是者拜之、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 日至、今是矣、真崇拜者、以神以誠拜天父、蓋天父欲人如是拜之、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 時將至、今是矣、真崇拜者、必以神以誠而拜父、蓋父欲人如是拜之也、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 天主神也、故禮之者亦宜以神與誠禮之耳。』
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Pero se acerca la hora, y ha llegado ya, en que los verdaderos adoradores rendirán culto al Padre en espíritu y en verdad, porque así quiere el Padre que sean los que le adoren.
- 현대인의 성경 - 아버지께 진정으로 예배하는 사람들이 영적인 진실한 예배를 드릴 때가 오는데 바로 이때이다. 아버지께서는 이렇게 예배하는 사람을 찾으신다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Но наступит время, и уже наступило, когда истинные поклонники будут поклоняться Отцу в духе и истине, потому что именно таких поклонников ищет Себе Отец.
- Восточный перевод - Но наступит время, и уже наступило, когда истинные поклонники будут поклоняться Небесному Отцу в духе и истине, потому что именно таких поклонников ищет Себе Отец.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но наступит время, и уже наступило, когда истинные поклонники будут поклоняться Небесному Отцу в духе и истине, потому что именно таких поклонников ищет Себе Отец.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но наступит время, и уже наступило, когда истинные поклонники будут поклоняться Небесному Отцу в духе и истине, потому что именно таких поклонников ищет Себе Отец.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais l’heure vient, et elle est déjà là, où les vrais adorateurs adoreront le Père par l’Esprit et en vérité ; car le Père recherche des hommes qui l’adorent ainsi.
- Nestle Aland 28 - ἀλλ’ ἔρχεται ὥρα καὶ νῦν ἐστιν, ὅτε οἱ ἀληθινοὶ προσκυνηταὶ προσκυνήσουσιν τῷ πατρὶ ἐν πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ· καὶ γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ τοιούτους ζητεῖ τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας αὐτόν.
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἀλλὰ ἔρχεται ὥρα καὶ νῦν ἐστιν, ὅτε οἱ ἀληθινοὶ προσκυνηταὶ προσκυνήσουσιν τῷ Πατρὶ ἐν πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ; καὶ γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ τοιούτους ζητεῖ, τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας αὐτόν.
- Nova Versão Internacional - No entanto, está chegando a hora, e de fato já chegou, em que os verdadeiros adoradores adorarão o Pai em espírito e em verdade. São estes os adoradores que o Pai procura.
- Hoffnung für alle - Doch es kommt die Zeit – ja, sie ist schon da –, in der die Menschen den Vater überall anbeten werden, weil sie von seinem Geist und seiner Wahrheit erfüllt sind. Von solchen Menschen will der Vater angebetet werden.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nhưng giờ đã đến—khi những người thật tâm thờ phượng Cha trong tâm linh và trong chân lý. Chúa Cha nhìn vào những người thờ phượng Ngài cách ấy.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - กระนั้นก็ใกล้ถึงเวลาแล้ว และบัดนี้ก็ถึงเวลาแล้วที่ผู้นมัสการอย่างถูกต้องจะนมัสการพระบิดาด้วยจิตวิญญาณและความจริง เพราะพวกเขาเป็น ผู้นมัสการแบบที่พระบิดาทรงแสวงหา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่จะถึงเวลา ที่จริงบัดนี้ก็ถึงเวลาแล้วที่พวกนมัสการแท้จะนมัสการพระบิดาด้วยวิญญาณและความจริง เพราะว่าพระบิดาแสวงหาผู้คนเหล่านี้ให้เป็นผู้นมัสการพระองค์
Cross Reference
- Isaiah 58:8 - Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.
- Isaiah 58:9 - Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
- Isaiah 58:10 - and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
- Isaiah 58:11 - and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
- Isaiah 58:12 - Those who will be of you will build the old waste places. You will raise up the foundations of many generations. You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.
- Isaiah 58:13 - “If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
- Isaiah 58:14 - then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.
- Psalms 32:2 - Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
- Ezekiel 22:30 - “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
- Jeremiah 7:7 - then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forever more.
- Jeremiah 7:8 - Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
- Jeremiah 7:9 - Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
- Jeremiah 7:10 - then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered;’ that you may do all these abominations?
- Jeremiah 7:11 - Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 7:12 - “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- Jeremiah 4:2 - and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
- 1 Chronicles 29:17 - I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
- Song of Solomon 2:14 - My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
- 1 Samuel 12:24 - Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
- Isaiah 1:10 - Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
- Isaiah 1:11 - “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
- Isaiah 1:12 - When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
- Isaiah 1:13 - Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.
- Isaiah 1:14 - My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
- Isaiah 1:15 - When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
- Psalms 51:6 - Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
- Proverbs 15:8 - The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Isaiah 10:20 - It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
- Psalms 147:11 - Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
- Psalms 17:1 - Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
- Isaiah 48:1 - “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—
- Isaiah 48:2 - for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.
- Jeremiah 3:10 - Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
- Luke 18:11 - The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
- Luke 18:12 - I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
- Luke 18:13 - But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
- Romans 8:15 - For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
- Isaiah 26:8 - Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
- Isaiah 26:9 - With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Isaiah 58:2 - Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
- John 16:32 - Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
- Romans 1:9 - For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
- Jude 1:20 - But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
- Jude 1:21 - Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
- Joshua 24:14 - “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
- Isaiah 66:1 - Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
- Isaiah 66:2 - For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
- 1 Peter 2:9 - But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- Isaiah 43:21 - the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.
- John 4:21 - Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
- Ephesians 6:18 - with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
- Romans 8:26 - In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
- Isaiah 29:13 - The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- John 1:17 - For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- John 5:25 - Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.
- John 12:23 - Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
- Matthew 15:7 - You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
- Matthew 15:8 - ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
- Matthew 15:9 - And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”
- Galatians 4:6 - And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
- Philippians 3:3 - For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;