John 14:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.

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  • John 14:21 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
  • John 14:15 : 15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
  • 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God. 16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
  • Rev 3:20-21 : 20 See, I am waiting at the door and giving the sign; if my voice comes to any man's ears and he makes the door open, I will come in to him, and will take food with him and he with me. 21 To him who overcomes I will give a place with me on my high seat, even as I overcame, and am seated with my Father on his high seat.
  • Rom 8:9-9 : 9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • John 6:56 : 56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.
  • Ps 90:1 : 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 84%

    15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.

    16 And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,

    17 Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you.

    18 I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

    19 A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.

    20 At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.

    21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

    22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?

  • 82%

    24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

    25 I have said all this to you while I am still with you.

  • John 15:9-12
    4 verses
    79%

    9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.

    10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.

    11 I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

    12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you.

  • 78%

    23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.

    24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • John 14:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me.

    2 In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

    3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to be with me, so that you may be where I am.

  • 7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

  • 27 For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

  • 28 Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

  • 74%

    33 My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

    34 I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • 74%

    23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

    24 Father, it is my desire that these whom you have given to me may be by my side where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me, because you had love for me before the world came into being.

  • 73%

    15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

    16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

  • 5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

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    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • 4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

  • John 14:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9 Jesus said to him, Philip, have I been with you all this time, and still you have no knowledge of me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. Why do you say, Let us see the Father?

    10 Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

    11 Have faith that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me: at least, have faith in me because of what I do.

  • John 14:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

    7 If you had knowledge of me, you would have knowledge of my Father: you have knowledge of him now and have seen him.

  • 26 If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

  • 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

  • 31 But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.

  • 51 Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

  • 47 Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:

  • 14 You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

  • 17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.

  • 22 Jesus said to him, If it is my desire for him to be here till I come back, what is that to you? come yourself after me.

  • 56 He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

  • 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

  • 42 Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.