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John 14:2
“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
John 14:2, King James Version (KJV)
“In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.”
World English Bible (WEB)
John 14 (KJV)
- 1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
- 2In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
- 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
- 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
- 5Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
- 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- 7If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
- 8Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
- 9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
- 10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
- 11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
- 12Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
- 13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
- 14If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
- 15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
- 16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
- 17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
- 18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
- 19Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- 20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
- 21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
- 22Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
- 23Jesus 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.
- 24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
- 25These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
- 26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
- 27Peace 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.
- 28Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
- 29And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
- 30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
- 31But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
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