John 3:30
“Hee must increase, but I must decrease.”
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John 3:30 Context
28Ye your selues beare me witnesse, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 29He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome, which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly because of the bridegromes voice: This my ioy therefore is fulfilled. 30Hee must increase, but I must decrease. 31Hee that commeth from aboue, is aboue all: hee that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: hee that cōmeth from heauen is aboue all: 32And what hee hath seene and heard, that he testifieth, and no man receiueth his testimony:
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Other Translations for John 3:30
He must increase, but I [must] decrease.
- King James Version
"He must increase, but I must decrease.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
He must increase, but I must decrease.
- American Standard Version (1901)
He has to become greater while I become less.
- Basic English Bible
He must increase, but I must decrease.
- Darby Bible
He must increase, but I must decrease.
- Webster's Bible
He must grow greater, but I must grow less.
- Weymouth Bible
He must increase, but I must decrease.
- World English Bible
It bihoueth hym to wexe, but me to be maad lesse.
- Wycliffe Bible
`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;
- Youngs Literal Bible
Wesley's Notes for John 3:30
3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease - So they who are now, like John, burning and shining lights, must (if not suddenly eclipsed) like him gradually decrease, while others are increasing about them; as they in their turns grew up, amidst the decays of the former generation. Let us know how to set, as well as how to rise; and let it comfort our declining days to trace, in those who are likely to succeed us in our work, the openings of yet greater usefulness.