John 16:27

Plain English Version

You see, he loves you too. He loves you because you love me, and because you believe that I came from him.

Cross References

Matthew 10:37

You see, you have to love me more than you love your own father and mother. Then it is all right for you to be my follower. And you have to love me more than you love your own son or daughter. Then it is all right for you to be my follower. If you don’t love me like that, you are not the right person to be my follower.

John 14:21

The people that love me are the people that listen to me and do what I tell them to do. And my father will love anyone that loves me. Yes, and I will love them too, and I will show them what I am really like.”

John 14:23

Jesus said, “If anyone loves me, they will do whatever I tell them. And my father will love them, and we will come and live with them.

John 16:30

Now we understand that you know everything. We don’t need to ask you anything, because you already know what we want to know. So we believe that you came from God.”

John 17:23

I want to be joined to them, so it’s like I am in them, just like you are joined to me, so it’s like you are in me. Then they will be one mob, joined together properly. Then the people that belong to this world will know that you sent me to the world. And they will also know that you love my followers just as much as you love me.

John 2:11

This was the first powerful thing Jesus did. He did it in Cana, in Galilee country. He did it to show that his power came from God, and his followers believed in him. They believed that he came from God.

John 3:13

I am the only person here that has been in heaven. I am the special man from God. I came down from heaven. So you have to believe what I say.

John 7:29

But I do know him. You see, God sent me here. I came from him, so I know him.”

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “No. God is not your father. You see, God sent me here. It wasn’t my idea to come here, God sent me. But you don’t love me. So I know that God is not your father.

Romans 8:3

You see, the law that came from Moses couldn’t help us. We were too weak. If we thought about some bad thing that we wanted to do, then we couldn’t help ourselves, we just did it. That law just made us think about those bad things, and then we wanted to do them. But God set us free from all that. He sent his own son to us. Jesus had the same sort of body that we bad people have. Then God punished him instead of us. Jesus died instead of us.

1 Corinthians 15:47

And think about Adam. He was the 1st man, and he came from the ground. But Jesus, the 2nd man, came from heaven.

1 Corinthians 16:22

And I want to say this to anyone that doesn’t love our leader, Jesus, “God will punish you.” And I’m telling Jesus, “Please come back soon.”

Galatians 4:4

And just like that little kid, we had to wait for the right time to come. Then, when the right time came, God sent his own son from heaven to the earth. He was born from a normal woman into the Jewish nation, and he did what the Jewish law said.

Ephesians 6:24

I want God to be very good to everyone that never stops loving our leader, Jesus Christ. From Paul

1 Timothy 1:15

You sometimes hear people say this, “Jesus Christ came into this world to save bad people, to make them into better people.” That is very true, and everybody has to believe it. And it tells the story about me too. I was really bad. I was worse than anybody else.

1 Peter 1:8

You never saw Jesus, but you love him. You can’t see him now, but you trust him. You are trusting God, and he is saving you, so you are really happy. You are so happy you can’t properly say how happy you are.