John 12:26

World English Bible (2000)

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 "Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
  • 2 Cor 5:8 : 8 We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
  • John 17:24 : 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
  • John 10:27 : 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • John 14:3 : 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
  • Num 14:24 : 24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
  • Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,
  • Phil 1:23 : 23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
  • Col 3:24 : 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
  • 1 Thess 4:17-18 : 17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;
  • Rev 14:4 : 4 These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
  • 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
  • Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
  • Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • John 21:22 : 22 Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me."
  • Rom 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,
  • Rom 14:18 : 18 For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.
  • Ps 91:15 : 15 He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
  • Prov 27:18 : 18 Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
  • Matt 25:21 : 21 "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
  • Mark 8:34 : 34 He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
  • Luke 6:46 : 46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
  • Luke 9:23 : 23 He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
  • Num 32:11 : 11 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
  • John 13:16 : 16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
  • John 14:15 : 15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
  • John 14:21-23 : 21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. 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, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23 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.
  • John 15:20 : 20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

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