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John 4:34
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KJ21
Jesus said unto them, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work.
ASV
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
AMP
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.
AMPC
Jesus said to them, My food (nourishment) is to do the will (pleasure) of Him Who sent Me and to accomplish and completely finish His work.
BRG
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
CSB
“My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,” Jesus told them.
CSBA
‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,’ Jesus told them.
CEB
Jesus said to them, “I am fed by doing the will of the one who sent me and by completing his work.
CJB
Yeshua said to them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants and to bring his work to completion.
CEV
Jesus said: My food is to do what God wants! He is the one who sent me, and I must finish the work that he gave me to do.
DARBY
Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.
DLNT
Jesus says to them, “My food is that I may do the will of the One having sent Me, and accomplish His work.
DRA
Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.
ERV
Jesus said, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do.
EASY
Jesus said to them, ‘My Father has sent me. I must do the things he wants me to do. I must finish the work that he has given to me to do. That is my food.
EHV
Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
ESV
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
ESVUK
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
EXB
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do ·what the One who sent me wants me to do [L the will of the One who sent me] and to ·finish [complete] his work.
GNV
Jesus said unto them, My meat is that I may do the will of him that sent me, and finish his work.
GW
Jesus told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
GNT
“My food,” Jesus said to them, “is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.
HCSB
“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.
ICB
Jesus said, “My food is to do what the One who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do.
ISV
Jesus told them, “My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work.
PHILLIPS
Jesus said to them, “My food is doing the will of him who sent me and finishing the work he has given me. Don’t you say, ‘Four months more and then comes the harvest’? But I tell you to open your eyes and look to the field—they are gleaming white, all ready for the harvest! The reaper is already being rewarded and getting in a harvest for eternal life, so that both sower and reaper may be glad together. For in this harvest the old saying comes true, ‘One man sows and another reaps.’ I have sent you to reap a harvest for which you never laboured; other men have worked hard and you have reaped the results of their labours.”
JUB
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.
KJV
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
AKJV
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
LSB
Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
LEB
Jesus said to them, “My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.
TLB
Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God who sent me, and from finishing his work.
MSG
Jesus said, “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn’t you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I’m telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It’s harvest time!
MEV
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
MOUNCE
Jesus said to them, · “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish the work he gave me to do.
NOG
Yeshua told them, “My food is to do what the one who sent me wants me to do and to finish the work he has given me.
NABRE
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work.
NASB
Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to accomplish His work.
NASB1995
Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
NCB
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
NCV
Jesus said, “My food is to do what the One who sent me wants me to do and to finish his work.
NET
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
NIRV
Jesus said, “My food is to do what my Father sent me to do. My food is to finish his work.
NIV
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
NIVUK
‘My food,’ said Jesus, ‘is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
NKJV
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.
NLV
Jesus said, “My food is to do what God wants Me to do and to finish His work.
NLT
Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
NMB
Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.
NRSVA
Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
NRSVACE
Jesus said to them, ‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
NRSVCE
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
NRSVUE
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.
NTFE
“My food,” replied Jesus, “is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to finish his work!
OJB
Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, My okhel (food) is that I may do the ratzon (will) of the One having sent me and may complete ma’aseh HaElohim [his work, KOHELET 11:5].
RGT
Jesus said to them, “My food is that I may do the will of Him who sent Me and finish His work.
RSV
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
RSVCE
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
TLV
Yeshua tells them, “My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
VOICE
Jesus: I receive My nourishment by serving the will of the Father who sent Me and completing His work.
WEB
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
WE
Do you not say, "In four months it will be harvest time"? Listen, I say. Look up and see the fields. The harvest is ready to cut now.
WYC
Jesus saith to them, My meat is, that I do the will of him that sent me, [and] that I perform the work of him.
YLT
Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
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