John 14:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ And if I go to prepare a place for each of you, I will return to take all you to [be with] me, so that you also will be where I am.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Common English Bible

³ When I go to prepare a place for you, I will return and take you to be with me so that where I am you will be too.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will return again, and then I will take you to myself, so that where I am, you also may be.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be.

John 14:3 Cross References

John 12:26

If any person wants to serve me, he should become my follower; and wherever I am, my servant will be there also. If any person serves me, the Father will honor him.

John 14:28

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am returning to you.’ If you [really] loved me, you would have been happy that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

John 14:4

And you all know how to get where I am going.”

John 17:24

“Father, I want those you gave me [i.e., the apostles, see verse 6] to be with me where I am [going], so they will see my splendor [i.e., in heaven], which you have given me, for you loved me before the creation of the world.

Acts 1:11

and said, “You men from Galilee, why are you standing there looking up at the sky? This Jesus who was received up from your presence into the sky will return in the same way you saw Him go there.”

Romans 8:17

And if we are [His] children, then we have an inheritance from God [i.e., blessings here and hereafter] and are fellow-sharers with Christ [of such blessings], providing we [are willing to] suffer with Him, so we can also be honored with Him [i.e., in the future life. See verses 18-25].

Philippians 1:23

So, I am in a dilemma between the two choices. [On the one hand] I have the desire to depart [from this life] and be with Christ [in heaven], which would be far better.

2 Thessalonians 1:12

[We pray this] so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be honored by you, and that you will be honored by Him, according to the unearned favor of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 2:12

If we endure [i.e., remain faithful through suffering], we will also rule with Him [i.e., both here and hereafter]. If we deny Him, He will also deny us. [See Matt. 10:33].

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ also, who was once [for all] offered [as a sacrifice] to take away the sins of many people, will come back a second time, not to take away sin, [but] to provide salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

Revelation 3:21

The person who has victory [in the Christian life], I will grant him [the privilege of] sitting down with me on my throne, as I also had victory and sat down with my Father on His throne.