John 14:2

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KJV King James Version

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.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

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?

WEB World English Bible

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

ASV American Standard Version

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.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

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;

Surrounding context — John 14

1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 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.

3 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.

4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

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2 Corinthians 5:1For we know that if our earthly house of [this] tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.John 13:36Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.Hebrews 13:14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.Revelation 21:2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.Hebrews 11:10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker [is] God.Revelation 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.Hebrews 11:14-16For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.John 12:25-26He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.John 17:24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.Hebrews 6:20Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.John 16:4But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.Hebrews 9:8The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:Revelation 1:5And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;Hebrews 9:23-26[It was] therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.2 Thessalonians 1:4-10So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:Revelation 3:21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

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