John 14:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • John 12:26 : 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.
  • John 14:18-23 : 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? 23 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.
  • John 14:28 : 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.
  • Acts 1:11 : 11 And said, O men of Galilee, why are you looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken from you into heaven, will come again, in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.
  • John 17:24 : 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.
  • 1 Thess 4:16-17 : 16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first; 17 Then we who are still living will be taken up together with them into the clouds to see the Lord in the air: and so will we be for ever with the Lord.
  • 2 Thess 1:12-2:1 : 12 So that glory may be given to the name of our Lord Jesus through you, and you may have glory in him, by the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,
  • 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:
  • Heb 9:28 : 28 So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.
  • 1 John 3:2-3 : 2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.
  • Rev 21:22-23 : 22 And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple. 23 And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
  • Rev 22:3-5 : 3 And there will be no more curse: and the high seat of God and of the Lamb will be there; and his servants will be worshipping him; 4 And they will see his face; and his name will be on their brows. 5 And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
  • Matt 25:32-34 : 32 And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper. 33 And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:
  • Acts 7:59-60 : 59 And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit. 60 And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.
  • Rom 8:17 : 17 And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
  • 2 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,) 8 We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
  • Rev 3:21 : 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.

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    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?

  • John 14:4-7
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    4 And you all have knowledge of where I am going, and of the way to it.

    5 Thomas said, Lord, we have no knowledge of where you are going; how may we have knowledge of the way?

    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.

  • John 14:27-29
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    27 May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.

    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.

    29 And now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you may have faith.

  • John 14:15-21
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    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.

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    23 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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    32 If God is given glory in him, God will give him glory in himself, and will give him glory even now.

    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.

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    14 He will give me glory, because he will take of what is mine, and make it clear to you.

    15 Everything which the Father has is mine: that is why I say, He will take of what is mine and will make it clear to you.

    16 After a little time you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me.

    17 So some of the disciples said one to another, What is this he is saying, After a little time, you will see me no longer; and then again, after a little time, you will see me? and, I am going to the Father?

  • John 8:21-22
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    22 So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

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    14 And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?

    15 And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us.

  • John 16:27-28
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    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.

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    7 But what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.

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    33 Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.

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

  • John 14:31
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    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.

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    10 Of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more;

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    28 But after I have come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.

  • John 17:23-24
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    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.

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    22 So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will be glad, and no one will take away your joy.

  • John 14:10-12
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    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.

    12 Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.

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    36 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later.

  • John 8:14
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    14 Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.

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    5 But now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are you going?

  • John 17:21
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    21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.

  • John 17:13
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    13 And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

  • John 12:26
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    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.

  • John 15:26
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    26 When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father even the Spirit of true knowledge who comes from the Father--he will give witness about me;

  • 1 Thess 4:14
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    14 For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.