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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 14 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > John 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/13.htm" title="John 13">◄</a> John 14 <a href="../john/15.htm" title="John 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/john/14.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Jesus, the Way to the Father</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="red">“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">There is more than enough room in my Father’s home.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">And you know the way to where I am going.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“No, we don’t know, Lord,” Thomas said. “We have no idea where you are going, so how can we know the way?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jesus told him, <span class="red">“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">If you had really known me, you would know who my Father is.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> From now on, you do know him and have seen him!”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it!</span></p><p class="hdg">Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">“If you love me, obey<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> my commandments.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> who will never leave you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">Soon the world will no longer see me, but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">When I am raised to life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.”</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">I am telling you these things now while I am still with you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="red">Remember what I told you: I am going away, but I will come back to you again. If you really loved me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father, who is greater than I am.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="red">I have told you these things before they happen so that when they do happen, you will believe.</span></p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="red">“I don’t have much more time to talk to you, because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/14-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="red">but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:2a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">There are many rooms in my Father’s house.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:2b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">If this were not so, I would have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you.</span><span class="ft"> Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">If this were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:7 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">If you have really known me, you will know who my Father is.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">Other manuscripts read </span><span class="it">you will obey;</span><span class="ft"> still others read </span><span class="it">you should obey.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Comforter,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">Encourager,</span><span class="ft"> or </span><span class="it">Counselor.</span><span class="ft"> Greek reads </span><span class="it">Paraclete;</span><span class="ft"> also in 14:26.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">14:17 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts read </span><span class="it">and is in you.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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