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“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.
John 14:1 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
  • KJV Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
  • NKJV “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
  • NASB “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
  • NLT “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.

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Quick answer

Jesus comforts His troubled disciples, urging them to believe in God and in Him. It calls for trust in Christ as the antidote to fear amid coming loss.

Overview

In the face of His departure and Peter's predicted denial, Jesus offers comfort grounded in faith. He places trust in Himself on par with trust in God, an implicit claim to deity. The verse opens chapter 14's rich consolation, teaching that faith in Christ steadies the heart against trouble and fear.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 36

  • Isa 26:3You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
  • John 16:22–23So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.
  • Isa 12:2–3Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
  • John 14:27–28Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.
  • 2 Cor 12:9–10But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
  • John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • Ps 42:5–6Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
  • John 12:44Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.
  • Ps 43:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
  • 1 Pet 1:21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
  • Eph 3:14–17... for this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
  • Isa 43:1–2Now this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!
  • Heb 12:12–13Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
  • John 13:19I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.
  • 1 Jn 5:10–12Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
  • 1 Th 3:3–4so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
  • John 11:25–27Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
  • 2 Cor 4:8–10We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
  • John 12:27Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.
  • 1 Jn 2:23–24Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.
  • Eph 1:15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
  • John 5:23so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
  • John 11:33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
  • Ps 42:8–11The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
  • 2 Th 2:2not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come.
  • Eph 1:12–13in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
  • 2 Cor 2:7So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
  • Jer 8:18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
  • Job 23:15–16Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
  • Acts 3:15–16You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
  • Ps 77:10So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
  • Ps 77:2–3In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
  • John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
  • Job 21:4–6Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
  • John 16:6Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.
  • Lam 3:17–23My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

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