John 14:23
Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'
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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
KJV1611 – Modern English
Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
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King James Version with Strong's Numbers
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Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)
Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: yf a man love me and wyll kepe my sayinges my father also will love him and we will come vnto him and will dwelle with him.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus answered, and sayde vnto him: He that loueth me, wyl kepe my worde, and my father wyl loue him: and we wyl come vnto him, and wyll make oure dwellynge with him.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Iesus answered, and sayd vnto him, If any man loue me, he will keepe my worde, and my Father will loue him, and we wil come vnto him, and wil dwell with him.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: If a man loue me, he wyll kepe my sayinges: and my father wyll loue hym, and we wyll come vnto hym, and dwell with hym.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.›
Webster's Bible (1833)
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
American Standard Version (1901)
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
American Standard Version (1901)
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
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.
World English Bible (2000)
Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.
Referenced Verses
- John 14:21 : 21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.
- John 14:15 : 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
- Ps 91:1 : 1 The one who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God. 16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.
- 1 John 2:24 : 24 As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
- Rev 3:20-21 : 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with them, and they with me. 21 The one who conquers I will grant to sit with me on my throne, just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on His throne.
- Rom 8:9-9 : 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Him. 10 But if Christ is in you, even though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who lives in you.
- Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted One says—he who lives forever, whose name is holy: 'I dwell in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'
- John 6:56 : 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
- Ps 90:1 : 1 A prayer of Moses, the man of God: Lord, you have been our dwelling place through all generations.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- John 14:15-228 verses84%
15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever.
17 The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him, you know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
19 In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
20 On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, 'Lord, how is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?'
- John 14:24-252 verses82%
24 The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.
25 I have spoken these things to you while remaining with you.
- John 15:9-124 verses79%
9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.
10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
12 This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.
- 1 John 3:23-242 verses78%
23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.
24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.
- John 14:1-33 verses76%
1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am, you may be also.
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7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
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28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
- John 13:33-353 verses74%
33 'Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you: Where I am going, you cannot come.'
34 'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'
35 'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'
- John 17:23-242 verses74%
23 I in them and You in Me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.
24 Father, I desire that those You have given Me may be with Me where I am, to see My glory, the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- 1 John 4:15-162 verses73%
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God.
16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.
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5 But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.
- 1 John 4:11-133 verses73%
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13 By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
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4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.
- John 14:9-113 verses72%
9 Jesus said to him, 'Philip, have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?'
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the works themselves.
- John 14:6-72 verses72%
6 Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.
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26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
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3 We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.
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31 But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.
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51 Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.
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47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like.
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14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
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17 This is my command: Love one another.
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22 Jesus said to him, 'If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!'
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56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.
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31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.
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42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.