John 14:23 “Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father wi…”

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James 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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him.

Young's Literal Translation

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;

Bible in Basic English

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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Cross references

“If”

John 14:21 John 14:15

John 14:21 · BSB

Whoever 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 reveal Myself to him.”

John 14:15 · BSB

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

“make”

1 John 2:24 1 John 4:4 John 10:30 Psalm 91:1 Isaiah 57:15 John 5:17–19

1 John 2:24 · BSB

As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 4:4 · BSB

You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

John 10:30 · BSB

I and the Father are one.”

Psalm 91:1 · BSB

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Isaiah 57:15 · BSB

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive th…

John 5:17–19 · BSB

But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

Also

2 Corinthians 6:16

2 Corinthians 6:16 · BSB

What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”

24Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me.

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