John 14:24

Failure to keep Jesus' words reveals an absence of love for Him, and His words are the Father's. To reject Jesus' teaching is to reject the Father who sent Him.

Cross-references · 17

• John 7:16Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
• John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• 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 14:21–23One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
• 1 Jn 3:16–20By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
• John 5:38You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
• Matt 25:41–46Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
• John 8:38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
• John 8:28Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.
• John 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
• John 7:28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.
• John 12:44–50Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
• 2 Cor 8:8–9I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
• Matt 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

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