Bible verse
If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
John 3:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 3.
8 The wind blows where it wishes. You hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
13 No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
KJV
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things?
ASV
If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?
ERV
If I told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things?
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