John 14:23

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

English Majority Text (NT)

In The 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.

In Context

22Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, and what has happened that You are about to manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

24He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

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Cross References

John 6:56He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

John 14:15“If you love Me, keep My commandments.

John 14:21He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him.”

Matthew Henry on John 14:19-25

Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that… Read the whole commentary →

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