John 5:45

⁴³ I have come in My Father’s name, and you have not received Me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will receive him.

⁴⁴ How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

⁴⁶ If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

⁴⁷ But since you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
KJV: Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
WEB: “Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
ASV: Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, [even] Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.
DARBY: Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is [one] who accuses you, Moses, on whom ye trust;
BLB: Do not think that I will accuse you⁺ to the Father. There is the one accusing you⁺: Moses, in whom you⁺ have hoped.

ÅB: dere må ikke tenke at jeg vil anklage dere hos Faren; det er en som anklager dere, Moses, han som dere har satt deres håp til.
OTB: Tro ikke at jeg vil anklage dere for Faderen. Deres anklager er Moses, som dere har satt deres håp til.
B1930: I må ikke tenke at jeg vil anklage eder hos Faderen; det er en som anklager eder, Moses, han som I har satt eders håp til.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Romans 3:19–20
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
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Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
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Romans 2:12
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
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2 Corinthians 3:7–11
Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
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John 9:28–29
Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
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Romans 10:5–10
For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”
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Romans 2:17–29
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
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John 7:19
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
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