John 14:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”
'In my Father's house are many rooms… I go to prepare a place for you' is Jesus' tender promise to anxious disciples: their future is a real place in the Father's house, and he himself is the one preparing it.
Read the full meaning“In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“In my Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo John 14:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Luke 14:22‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- John 12:25Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
- John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
- John 13:36“Lord, where are You going?” Simon Peter asked. Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”
- John 16:4But I have told you these things so that when their hour comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- John 17:24Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
- Acts 9:16I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”
- 2 Corinthians 5:1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:3so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:4That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Hebrews 6:20where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
- Hebrews 9:8By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
- Hebrews 9:23So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- Hebrews 11:10For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Hebrews 11:14Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.
- Hebrews 13:14For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
- Revelation 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,
- Revelation 3:12The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
- Revelation 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
- Revelation 21:2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 21:10And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
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