John 14:18

I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

In Context

17That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

19Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

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Cross References

Matthew 28:20and teach them to obey every command which I have given you. And remember, I am with you always, day by day, until the Close of the Age."

John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

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 →

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