Verse 2

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Referenced Verses

  • John 13:36 : 36 Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
  • Rev 21:2 : 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, ppad as a bride adorned for her husband.
  • 2 Cor 5:1 : 1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
  • Rev 3:12 : 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no mo out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
  • John 16:4 : 4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
  • John 13:33 : 33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
  • Heb 11:14-16 : 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • John 12:25-26 : 25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
  • Luke 14:26-33 : 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. 33 So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.
  • John 17:24 : 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.
  • 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 4 For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
  • 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Thess 1:4-9 : 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
  • Heb 9:8 : 8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
  • Heb 9:23-26 : 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
  • Rev 3:21 : 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
  • Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he carried me away in the spirit to a gat and high mountain, and shewed me that gat city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most pcious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; 12 And had a wall gat and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written theon, which a the names of the twelve tribes of the childn of Israel: 13 On the east the gates; on the north the gates; on the south the gates; and on the west the gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that talked with me had a golden ed to measu the city, and the gates theof, and the wall theof. 16 And the city lieth foursqua, and the length is as large as the badth: and he measud the city with the ed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the badth and the height of it a equal. 17 And he measud the wall theof, an hundd and forty and four cubits, according to the measu of a man, that is, of the angel. 18 And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pu gold, like unto clear glass. 19 And the foundations of the wall of the city we garnished with all manner of pcious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphi; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates we twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the stet of the city was pu gold, as it we transpant glass. 22 And I saw no temple thein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb a the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light theof. 24 And the nations of them which a saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it. 25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for the shall be no night the. 26 And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. 27 And the shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which a written in the Lamb's book of life.