Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
Parallel translations
- WEB Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
- KJV Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
- NKJV Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
- NASB Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.
- NLT Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.
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Quick answer
Jesus answers that anyone who loves Him will keep His word, and the Father and Son will come and make their home with him. God dwells with those who love and obey Christ.
Overview
Rather than a public display, Jesus describes an intimate indwelling: the Father and the Son taking up residence with the loving, obedient believer through the Spirit. This fulfills the Old Testament hope of God dwelling among His people, now realized inwardly. Love for Christ, expressed in obedience, is the appointed avenue for this abiding communion with the triune God.
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Cross-references · 20
- John 14:21Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- John 14:15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
- Rev 3:20–21Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
- 1 Jn 4:15–16If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
- 1 Jn 2:24As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.
- 1 Jn 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
- 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
- Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
- Ps 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- John 6:56Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.
- John 5:17–19But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”
- Rom 8:9–11You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
- John 14:17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
- Rev 7:15–17For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.
- Rev 21:22But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
- Gen 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Gen 11:7Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
- Ps 90:1A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all generations.
- Rev 22:3No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be within the city, and His servants will worship Him.
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