John 14:23

Jesus replied to him, “Those who love me will obey what I have told them. My Father will also love them. It is those people whom my Father and I will be able to come to and ◄live with/have a personal relationship with►.

Translation for Translators

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

22Then Judas spoke to him. He was not Judas Iscariot (OR, Judas, the man from Kerioth Town), but instead a disciple whose other name was Thaddeus. He said, “Lord, what has happened so that you can fully reveal to us what you are like, and not reveal that to those who do not belong to God [MTY]?”

24But those who do not love me will not obey what I have told them. So I cannot reveal to them what I am really like. These words that I am telling you have not come just from me. They came from my Father, the one who sent me.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Now we will make human beings that will be like us in many ways. I want them to rule over the fish in the sea, over the birds, over all the ◄livestock/domestic animals►, and over all the other creatures that scurry across the ground.”

Psalms 90:1Lord, you have always ◄been like a home for us/protected us► [MET].

Isaiah 57:15Because this is what I, Yahweh, who am holy and greatly honored and who live forever, say: I live in the highest heaven, where everything is holy, but I also am with those who are humble and who are sorry for the sinful things that they have done. I will greatly encourage [DOU] those who have repented.

John 6:56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with them.

John 14:15“If you love me, you will do what I have commanded you.

John 14:21Those who have accepted my commands and obey them are the people who love me. My Father will love those who love me. I also will love them, and I will fully reveal to them what I am like.”

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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