John 14:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

American Standard Version (1901)

He 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 unto him.

Common English Bible

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them loves me. Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them: it is he who loves me. And whoever loves me shall be loved by my Father. And I will love him, and I will manifest myself to him."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He 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.

John 14:21 Cross References

2 Kings 18:6

For he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following him but kept the commandments that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Psalm 35:27

Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the Lord, who delights in the welfare of his servant.”

Exodus 33:18

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Jeremiah 31:31

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

Luke 11:28

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”

John 14:15

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 14:18

“I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

John 15:14

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

John 16:14

He will glorify me because he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

John 16:27

for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

John 17:23

I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

Acts 22:18

and saw Jesus saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’

2 Corinthians 12:8

Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me,

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Deuteronomy 11:13

“If you will only heed his every commandment that I am commanding you today—loving the Lord your God and serving him with all your heart and with all your soul—

Deuteronomy 7:13

he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the issue of your flock, in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

2 Timothy 4:22

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

1 John 2:5

but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we know that we are in him:

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 5:3

For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

2 John 1:6

And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment just as you have heard it from the beginning—you must walk in it.

Revelation 2:17

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.

Revelation 3:20

Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you with me.