John 3:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
To this John replied, "A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.

New Living Translation
John replied, “No one can receive anything unless God gives it from heaven.

English Standard Version
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.

Berean Study Bible
John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.

New American Standard Bible
John replied, “A person can receive not even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

NASB 1995
John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

NASB 1977
John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

Amplified Bible
John replied, “A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing at all] unless it has been granted to him from heaven [for there is no other source than the sovereign will of God].

Christian Standard Bible
John responded, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
John responded, "No one can receive a single thing unless it's given to him from heaven.

Contemporary English Version
John replied: No one can do anything unless God in heaven allows it.

Good News Translation
John answered, "No one can have anything unless God gives it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
John answered, "People can't receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

International Standard Version
John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

NET Bible
John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

New King James Version
John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

King James 2000 Bible
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

New Heart English Bible
John answered, "No one can receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

World English Bible
John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

American King James Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

American Standard Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

A Faithful Version
John answered and said, "No one is able to receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Darby Bible Translation
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it be given him out of heaven.

English Revised Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

Webster's Bible Translation
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Iohn answered, and saide, A man can receiue nothing, except it be giuen him fro heauen.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Iohn aunswered, and sayde: A man can receaue nothyng, except it be geuen hym from heauen.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Ihon answered and sayde: A man can receaue nothinge, excepte it be geuen him from heaue.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Iohn answered and sayde: a man can receave no thinge at all except it be geve him fro heaven.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
John answered and said, “A man is not able to receive anything if it may not have been given him from Heaven;

Berean Literal Bible
John answered and said, "A man is able to receive not one thing if it is not given to him from heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

Smith's Literal Translation
John answered and said, No man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven.

Literal Emphasis Translation
John answered and said, A man is not able to receive anything unless it is given to him from out of heaven.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version
John responded and said: “A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yohannan answered and said to them: “A man cannot receive anything of his own will unless it is given to him from Heaven.

Lamsa Bible
John answered and said to them, No man can receive anything of his own will, except it is given to him from heaven.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it be given to him from heaven.

Godbey New Testament
John responded and said, No man is able to receive anything, unless it may have been given unto him from heaven.

Haweis New Testament
John answered and said, A man cannot assume any thing, except it be given him from heaven.

Mace New Testament
but John made them this answer, a man can have no authority, but what he derives from heaven.

Weymouth New Testament
"A man cannot obtain anything," replied John, "unless it has been granted to him from Heaven.

Worrell New Testament
John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from Heaven.

Worsley New Testament
John answered and said, A man can take nothing upon him, unless it be given him from heaven.
















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