John 6:56
New International Version
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.

New Living Translation
Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

English Standard Version
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.

Berean Standard Bible
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

Berean Literal Bible
The one eating My flesh and drinking My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

King James Bible
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

New King James Version
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

New American Standard Bible
The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

NASB 1995
“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

NASB 1977
“He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

Legacy Standard Bible
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

Amplified Bible
He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood [believes in Me, accepts Me as Savior] remains in Me, and I [in the same way remain] in him.

Christian Standard Bible
The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

American Standard Version
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Whoever eats my body and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him.”

Contemporary English Version
If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him.

English Revised Version
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

Good News Translation
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I live in them.

International Standard Version
The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.

Literal Standard Version
he who is eating My flesh, and is drinking My blood, remains in Me, and I in him.

Majority Standard Bible
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.

New American Bible
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.

NET Bible
The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

New Revised Standard Version
Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.

New Heart English Bible
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

Webster's Bible Translation
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

Weymouth New Testament
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I remain in union with him.

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

Young's Literal Translation
he who is eating my flesh, and is drinking my blood, doth remain in me, and I in him.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jesus the Bread of Life
55For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.…

Cross References
John 6:55
For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

John 15:4
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

John 17:23
I in them and You in Me--that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

1 John 2:24
As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:24
Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.

1 John 4:15
If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.


Treasury of Scripture

He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.

He that.

Lamentations 3:24
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

dwelleth.

John 14:20,23
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you…

John 15:4,5
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me…

John 17:21-23
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me…

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John 6
1. Jesus feeds five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes.
15. Thereupon the people would have made him king;
16. but withdrawing himself, he walks on the sea to his disciples;
26. reproves the people flocking after him, and all the fleshly hearers of his word;
32. declares himself to be the bread of life to believers.
66. Many disciples depart from him.
68. Peter confesses him.
70. Judas is a devil.














(56) Dwelleth in me, and I in him.--Abideth gives the sense more fully. (Comp. John 14:2-23; John 15:4 et seq.; John 17:23; 1John 3:24; 1John 4:16.) It is one of those deeper thoughts which meet us only in the words of the beloved disciple. The union which results from the communication of life is not temporary, but is one that remaineth. By virtue of it we abide in Christ, and He in us. It is our home life, that of every day, and will be the life of the eternal home (John 14:2). (Comp. Note on John 5:38, and the contrast in John 3:36.) . . . Verse 56. - He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I (dwell) in him. This mutual indwelling is illustrated elsewhere (John 15:1-5) by the image of the vine and its branches. The vine abides in the branch in the virtue of its life-giving forces. Cut away from the parent stem, it can do nothing. Fruitlessness condemns and fire consumes it. The branch abides in the vine, as deriving all its worth, its true place, its possibility of growth and fruit, from the vine (cf. also John 17:23; 1 John 3:24; 1 John 4:16). The dwelling of the believer in Christ involves an utter self-surrender to him, a recognition of the supreme claims of the God-Man and his work, a complete trust in him as the Source of all life, a sound and abiding place of rest, a justification before God as one with Christ, as one identified with him in his well pleasing to the Father. The dwelling of Christ in the believer is the fulness and riches of the Divine life. Christ liveth in him (Galatians 2:20), thinks in his thoughts, moves through his will. This is sanctification. The believer is in Christ as the members are in the body. Christ is in the believer as God is in his temple. What is the condition of this mutual indwelling? Christ puts the condition of this Divine interpretation thus: "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him." The verb is in the present tense, implying the continuous appropriation of the Divine sustenance.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Whoever
(Ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

eats
τρώγων (trōgōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5176: To eat, partake of a meal.

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

flesh
σάρκα (sarka)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4561: Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

drinks
πίνων (pinōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4095: To drink, imbibe. A prolonged form of pio, which poo occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe.

My
μου (mou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

blood
αἷμα (haima)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 129: Blood, literally, figuratively or specially; by implication, bloodshed, also kindred.

remains
μένει (menei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3306: To remain, abide, stay, wait; with acc: I wait for, await. A primary verb; to stay.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

Me,
ἐμοὶ (emoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

and I
κἀγὼ (kagō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 2504: To also, I too, but I. From kai and ego; so also the dative case kamoi, and accusative case kame and I, me.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

him.
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.


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