John 14:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 14:21 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
  • John 14:15 : 15 Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.
  • Ps 91:1 : 1 As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, and resides in the protective shadow of the Sovereign One–
  • 1 John 4:15-16 : 15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
  • 1 John 2:24 : 24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
  • Rev 3:20-21 : 20 Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me. 21 I will grant the one who conquers permission to sit with me on my throne, just as I too conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rom 8:9-9 : 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness. 11 Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
  • John 6:56 : 56 The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.
  • Ps 90:1 : 1 Book 4(Psalms 90-106) A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 14:15-22
    8 verses
    84%

    15Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

    16Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever–

    17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

    18“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

    21The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

    22“Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
    82%

    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

    25“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

  • John 15:9-12
    4 verses
    79%

    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

    10If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • 1 John 3:23-24
    2 verses
    78%

    23Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

  • John 14:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1Jesus’ Parting Words to His Disciples“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

    2There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

    3And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

  • John 15:7
    76%

    7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

  • John 16:27
    75%

    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • John 14:28
    74%

    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • John 13:33-35
    3 verses
    74%

    33Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders,‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

    34“I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • John 17:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

    24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

  • 1 John 4:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

    16And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

  • 1 John 2:5
    73%

    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

  • 1 John 4:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • John 15:4
    72%

    4Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

  • John 14:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9Jesus replied,“Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say,‘Show us the Father’?

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

  • John 14:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 12:26
    72%

    26If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

  • 1 John 2:3
    71%

    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

  • John 14:31
    71%

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 8:51
    71%

    51I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

  • Luke 6:47
    70%

    47“Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and puts them into practice– I will show you what he is like:

  • John 15:14
    70%

    14You are my friends if you do what I command you.

  • John 15:17
    70%

    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • John 21:22
    70%

    22Jesus replied,“If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours? You follow me!”

  • John 6:56
    70%

    56The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

  • John 8:31
    70%

    31Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

  • John 8:42
    70%

    42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.