“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me.
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.
- 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.
- 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 26:3You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
- John 16:22–23Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
- Isa 12:2–3Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
- John 14:27–28Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
- 2 Cor 12:9–10He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
- John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- Ps 42:5–6Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
- John 12:44Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
- Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
- 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- Eph 3:14–17For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Isa 43:1–2But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
- Heb 12:12–13Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
- John 13:19From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.
- 1 Jn 5:10–12He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
- 1 Th 3:3–4that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
- John 11:25–27Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
- 2 Cor 4:8–10We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
- John 12:27“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
- 1 Jn 2:23–24Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.
- Eph 1:15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
- John 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
- John 11:33When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
- Ps 42:8–11Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- 2 Th 2:2not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
- Eph 1:12–13to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- 2 Cor 2:7so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
- Jer 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
- Job 23:15–16Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
- Acts 3:15–16and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Ps 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
- Ps 77:2–3In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
- John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- Job 21:4–6As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
- John 16:6But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
- Lam 3:17–23You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
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