John 16:27

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Zephaniah 3:17

The LORD your God wins victory after victory and is always with you. He celebrates and sings because of you, and he will refresh your life with his love.”

Matthew 10:37

If you love your father or mother or even your sons and daughters more than me, you are not fit to be my disciples.

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 14:23

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.

John 16:30

At last we know that you understand everything, and we don't have any more questions. Now we believe that you truly have come from God.”

John 17:23

I am one with them, and you are one with me, so that they may become completely one. Then this world's people will know that you sent me. They will know that you love my followers as much as you love me.

John 2:11

This was Jesus' first miracle, and he did it in the village of Cana in Galilee. There Jesus showed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.

John 3:13

No one has gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from there.

John 7:29

But I know the one who sent me, because I came from him.”

John 8:42

Jesus answered: If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and only from him. He sent me. I did not come on my own.

Romans 8:3

The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ's body to condemn sin.

1 Corinthians 15:47

The first man was made from the dust of the earth, but the second man came from heaven.

1 Corinthians 16:22

I pray that God will put a curse on everyone who doesn't love the Lord. And may the Lord come soon.

2 Corinthians 5:14

We are ruled by Christ's love for us. We are certain that if one person died for everyone else, then all of us have died.

Galatians 4:4

But when the time was right, God sent his Son, and a woman gave birth to him. His Son obeyed the Law,

Ephesians 6:24

May God be kind to everyone who keeps on loving our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 1:15

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” This saying is true, and it can be trusted. I was the worst sinner of all!

Hebrews 12:6

The Lord corrects the people he loves and disciplines those he calls his own.”

1 Peter 1:8

You have never seen Jesus, and you don't see him now. But still you love him and have faith in him, and no words can tell how glad and happy

1 John 4:19

We love because God loved us first.

Revelation 3:19

I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.

Revelation 3:9

Now you will see what I will do with those people who belong to Satan's group. They claim to be Jews, but they are liars. I will make them come and kneel down at your feet. Then they will know that I love you.