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John 14:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I goi to prepare a place for you.

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Heb. 6:20• ²⁰where entered forerunner for us Jesus, become forever high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. (Heb. 6:20)

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Heb. 9:8,24• ⁸the Holy Spirit showing this that the way of the holies hath not yet been manifested, while yet the first tabernacle hath a standing:
²⁴For the Christ entered not into handmade holies, figures of the true, but into the heaven itself now to appear to the face of God for us; (Heb. 9:8,24)

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Rev. 21:2• ²And the holy city, new Jerusalem, I saw coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Rev. 21:2)

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2 Cor. 5:1• ¹For we know that if our earthly tabernacle-house be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens. (2 Cor. 5:1)

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Heb. 11:10,14‑16• ¹⁰for he waited for the city that hath the foundations, of which God is architect and master-builder.
¹⁴For they that say such things make plain that they seek out a country.
¹⁵And if indeed they called to mind that from which they went out, they might have had opportunity to return;
¹⁶but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:10,14‑16)

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Heb. 13:14• ¹⁴For here we have not an abiding city, but we seek after the coming one. (Heb. 13:14)

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Rev. 3:12,21• ¹²He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall never go out more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that cometh down out of the heaven from my God, and my new name.
²¹He that overcometh, I will give him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father in his throne. (Rev. 3:12,21)

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Rev. 21:10‑27• ¹⁰And he carried me away in {i}the{/i} Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, having the glory of God.
¹¹Its light {i}was{/i} like a stone most precious, as a jasper stone clear as crystal;
¹²it had a wall great and high; it had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of {i}the{/i} sons of Israel:
¹³on {i}the{/i} east three gates, and on {i}the{/i} north three gates, and on {i}the{/i} south three gates, and on {i}the{/i} west three gates.
¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁵And he that talked with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and the gates of it and the wall of it.
¹⁶And the city lieth quadrangular, and the length of it {i}is{/i} as much as the breadth; and he measured the city with the reed (twelve thousand stadia: the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
¹⁷And he measured the wall of it, an hundred forty {i}and{/i} four cubits, a man's measure which is of {i}the{/i} angel.
¹⁸And the building of its wall was jasper; and the city pure gold like pure glass.
¹⁹The foundations of the wall of the city {i}were{/i} adorned with every precious stone; the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
²⁰the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolyte, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprasus, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.
²¹And the twelve gates {i}were{/i} twelve pearls; each one of the gates severally was of one pearl: and the street of the city pure gold as transparent glass.
²²And I saw no temple in it: for the Lord God the Almighty is the temple of it, and the Lamb.
²³And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine on it: for the glory of God illumined it, and the Lamb {i}is{/i} the lamp of it.
²⁴And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory unto it.
²⁵And the gates of it shall in no wise be shut by day: for there shall be no night there.
²⁶And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations unto it.
²⁷And there shall in no wise enter into it anything common, and {i}one{/i} practicing abomination and a lie; but those that are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Rev. 21:10‑27)

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John 12:25‑26• ²⁵He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
²⁶If anyone serve me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my servant shall be; if anyone serve me, him will my Father honour. (John 12:25‑26)

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John 16:4• ⁴But I have said these things to you, that when the hour shall have come, ye may remember them that I told you; but these things I told you not from [the] beginning, because I was with you. (John 16:4)

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Luke 14:26‑33• ²⁶If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters; yea and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;
²⁷{i}and{/i} whoever doth not carry his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
²⁸{i}For which of you, desirous of building a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, if he have what [is needed] to complete it;{/i}
²⁹{i}in order that, having laid the foundation of it, and not being able to finish it, all who see it do not begin to mock at him,{/i}
³⁰{i}saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish?{/i}
³¹{i}Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?{/i}
³²{i}and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.{/i}
³³Thus, then, every one of you who forsaketh not all his own possessions cannot be my disciple. (Luke 14:26‑33)

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Acts 9:16• ¹⁶for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake. (Acts 9:16)

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1 Thess. 3:3‑4• ³that no one might be moved by these afflictions. For yourselves know that for this we are set.
⁴For even when we were with you we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it came to pass, and ye know. (1 Thess. 3:3‑4)

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1 Thess. 5:9• ⁹Because God did not appoint us unto wrath, but unto obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thess. 5:9)

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2 Thess. 1:4‑10• ⁴so that we ourselves glory in you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and the tribulations which ye are all enduring;
⁵a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that ye be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which ye also suffer;
⁶if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to those who trouble you,
⁷and to you that are troubled rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with angels of his power
⁸in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to those that know not God and to those that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus;
⁹Who shall pay as penalty everlasting destruction from [the] presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
¹⁰when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be wondered at in all that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day. (2 Thess. 1:4‑10)

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Titus 1:2• ²upon hope of life eternal which God that cannot lie promised before the times of the ages, (Titus 1:2)

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Rev. 1:5• ⁵and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. To him that loveth us and washed us from our sins in his blood, (Rev. 1:5)

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John 13:33,36• ³³Little children , yet a little I am with you. Ye will seek me; and, even as I said to the Jews, where I go away ye cannot come, also to you I say now.
³⁶Simon Peter saith to him, Lord, where goest thou? Jesus answered [him], Where I go, thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards. (John 13:33,36)

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John 17:24• ²⁴Father, that what thou hast given me, I desire that, where I am, they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before [the] world’s foundation. (John 17:24)

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Heb. 6:20• ²⁰where entered forerunner for us Jesus, become forever high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. (Heb. 6:20)

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Heb. 9:8,23‑26• ⁸the Holy Spirit showing this that the way of the holies hath not yet been manifested, while yet the first tabernacle hath a standing:
²³Necessity therefore [was] that the examples of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
²⁴For the Christ entered not into handmade holies, figures of the true, but into the heaven itself now to appear to the face of God for us;
²⁵neither that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holies yearly with blood not his own,
²⁶since he were bound often to suffer from [the] world's foundation. But now once on consummation of the ages he hath been manifested for putting away of sin by his sacrifice. (Heb. 9:8,23‑26)

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Heb. 11:16• ¹⁶but now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he prepared for them a city. (Heb. 11:16)

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Rev. 21:2• ²And the holy city, new Jerusalem, I saw coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (Rev. 21:2)

• He did not forsake them in going away, as though there were only room for Himself in His Father’s house. (He alludes to the temple as a figure.) There was room for them all. (“John 14” by J.N. Darby)

• “I go to prepare a place for you.” He does not mean that He was in the act of departure, but just about to go. He uses the present to express its certainty and nearness; He then was on the point of going. (“John 14” by W. Kelly)

• If He discloses His own bright abode with the Father, there is ample room for them as for Him….It is no question of crowns, or cities, or place in the kingdom. There will be reward according to walk, though grace will secure its own sovereign rights. But here differences vanish before the infinite love that will have us with Himself before His Father. (“John 14” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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In my Father’s house there are many abodes; were it not so, I had told you: for I go to prepare you a place;

W. Kelly Translation

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In my Father’s house are many mansions: if not so, I would have told you, becausea I go to prepare a place for you.

WK Translation Notes

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Many MSS. support "because" which the T. R. omits.