John 14:21-23

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

21 p Whoever has my commandments and q keeps them, he it is who loves me. And r he who loves me s will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and t manifest myself to him." 22 u Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it v that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?" 23 Jesus answered him, w "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and x we will come to him and y make our home with him.

  1. Cross References
    John 7:17
    If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
    John 8:31 - 32
    So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples.
  2. Cross References
    John 14:15
    If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
    1 John 2:5
    But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
  3. Cross References
    John 16:27
    For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
  4. Cross References
    John 12:26
    If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  5. Cross References
    John 7:4
    For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.
  6. Cross References
    Luke 6:16
    And Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
    Acts 1:13
    And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.
  7. Cross References
    Acts 10:40 - 41
    But God raised him on the third day and made him to appear.
  8. Cross References
    John 14:15
    If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
    John 14:21
    Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
  9. Cross References
    Revelation 3:20
    Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
  10. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 6:16
    What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
    1 John 2:24
    Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.
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