John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
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In The King James Version
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
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Psalms 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Isaiah 51:12“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Lamentations 5:3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Hosea 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
Matthew 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
John 14:16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor, that he may be with you forever:
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 →