John 14:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jesus replied: If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them.

Cross References

Genesis 1:26

God said, “Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures.”

Genesis 11:7

Come on! Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages—then they won't be able to understand each other.

Psalm 90:1

Our Lord, in all generations you have been our home.

Psalm 91:1

Live under the protection of God Most High and stay in the shadow of God All-Powerful.

Isaiah 57:15

Our holy God lives for ever in the highest heavens, and this is what he says: Though I live high above in the holy place, I am here to help those who are humble and depend only on me.

John 10:30

and I am one with the Father.

John 14:15

Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will do as I command.

John 14:17

The Spirit will show you what is true. The people of this world cannot accept the Spirit, because they don't see or know him. But you know the Spirit, who is with you and will keep on living in you.

John 14:21

If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.

John 14:24

But anyone who doesn't love me, won't obey me. What they have heard me say doesn't really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.

John 15:10

If you obey me, I will keep loving you, just as my Father keeps loving me, because I have obeyed him.

John 16:27

God the Father loves you because you love me, and you believe that I have come from him.

John 6:56

If you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you are one with me, and I am one with you.

John 8:51

I tell you for certain that if you obey my words, you will never die.”

John 8:52

Then the people said, “Now we are sure that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets. How can you say that no one who obeys your words will ever die?

2 Corinthians 6:16

Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says, “I will live with these people and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Ephesians 3:17

and that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. Stand firm and be deeply rooted in his love.

1 John 2:24

Keep thinking about the message you first heard, and you will always be one in your heart with the Son and with the Father.

1 John 2:5

We truly love God only when we obey him as we should, and then we know that we belong to him.

1 John 4:4

Children, you belong to God, and you have defeated these enemies. God's Spirit is in you and is more powerful than the one that is in the world.

1 John 5:3

We show our love for God by obeying his commandments, and they are not hard to follow.

2 John 1:6

Love means that we do what God tells us. And from the beginning, he told you to love him.

Revelation 21:22

I did not see a temple there. The Lord God All-Powerful and the Lamb were its temple.

Revelation 21:3

I heard a loud voice shout from the throne: God's home is now with his people. He will live with them, and they will be his own. Yes, God will make his home among his people.

Revelation 22:3

God's curse will no longer be on the people of that city. He and the Lamb will be seated there on their thrones, and its people will worship God