Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
- BSB “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.
- 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.
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- Isa 26:3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
- John 16:22–23And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
- Isa 12:2–3Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
- John 14:27–28Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
- 2 Cor 12:9–10And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
- John 6:40And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- Ps 42:5–6Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
- John 12:44Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
- Ps 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
- 1 Pet 1:21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Eph 3:14–17For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Isa 43:1–2But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
- Heb 12:12–13Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
- John 13:19Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
- 1 Jn 5:10–12He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
- 1 Th 3:3–4That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.
- John 11:25–27Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
- 2 Cor 4:8–10We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
- John 12:27Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
- 1 Jn 2:23–24Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
- Eph 1:15Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
- John 5:23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
- John 11:33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
- Ps 42:8–11Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
- 2 Th 2:2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
- Eph 1:12–13That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
- 2 Cor 2:7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
- Jer 8:18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
- Job 23:15–16Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
- Acts 3:15–16And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
- Ps 77:10And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- Ps 77:2–3In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
- John 16:3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- Job 21:4–6As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- John 16:6But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
- Lam 3:17–23And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
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