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Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:13 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • BSB And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • ESV Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • NKJV And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • NASB And whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • NLT You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.

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Cross-references · 35

  • John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
  • Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
  • Matt 7:7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
  • Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
  • 1 Jn 5:14This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
  • John 16:23“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
  • John 14:14If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
  • John 15:16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
  • 1 Jn 3:22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
  • Eph 3:20–21Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
  • Jas 5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
  • Phil 4:13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
  • John 16:26In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,
  • Eph 3:12in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
  • Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
  • Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
  • Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
  • Col 3:17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
  • John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
  • John 7:37Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
  • Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
  • Luke 11:9“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
  • John 12:44Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
  • 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • Heb 4:15For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
  • 2 Cor 12:8–10Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
  • Eph 3:14For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
  • John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 5:19Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
  • John 16:7Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  • John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
  • John 17:4–5I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
  • John 13:31When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.

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