John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will return to you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 101:2O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my outcry reach you.
Isaiah 51:12It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?
Lamentations 5:3We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
Hosea 14:3Take these words with you and return to the Lord. And say to him, “Remove all iniquity and accept the good. And we will repay the calves of our lips.
Matthew 28:20teaching them to observe all that I have ever commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the consummation of the age.”
John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and he will give another Advocate to you, so that he may abide with you for eternity:
Matthew Henry on John 14:16-18
Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Christ not only proposes such things to them as were the matter of their comfort, but here promises to send the Spirit, whose office it should be to be their… Read the whole commentary →