The person that serves me must follow me. Then my servant will be with me everywhere I am. My Father will give honor to people that serve me.
John 14:3 - Easy To Read Version After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back. Then I will take you with me, so that you can be where I am. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
The person that serves me must follow me. Then my servant will be with me everywhere I am. My Father will give honor to people that serve me.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am leaving, but I will come back to you.’ If you loved me, then you would be happy that I am going back to the Father. Why? Because the Father is greater than I am.
“Father, I want these people that you have given me to be with me in every place I am. I want them to see my glory. This is the glory you gave me because you loved me before the world was made.
The two men said to the apostles, “Men from Galilee, why are you standing here looking into the sky? You saw Jesus carried away from you into heaven. He will come back in the same way you saw him go.”
If we are God’s children, then we will get the blessings God has for his people. We will get these things from God. God will give us all that he has given Christ. But we must suffer like Christ suffered. Then we will be able to share his glory.
It is hard to choose between living or dying. I want to leave this life and be with Christ. That is much better.
We pray all this so that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ can have glory in you. And you can have glory in him. That glory comes from the grace (kindness) of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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So Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people. And Christ will come a second time, but not for people’s sin. Christ will come the second time to bring salvation to those people who are waiting for him.
“I will let every person that wins the victory sit with me on my throne. It was the same with me. I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.