John 14:2

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John 14:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

2 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?

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am.

4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

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2 Corinthians 5:1

Now 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.

Hebrews 11:10

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Hebrews 11:14

Now those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own.

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

Hebrews 11:16

Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Revelation 3:12

The 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 3:21

To 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 21:10

And 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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shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper, as clear as crystal.

Revelation 21:12

The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.

Revelation 21:13

There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south, and three on the west.

Revelation 21:14

The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Revelation 21:15

The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

Revelation 21:16

The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

Revelation 21:17

And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

Revelation 21:18

The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

Revelation 21:19

The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

Revelation 21:20

the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

Revelation 21:21

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.

Revelation 21:22

But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

Revelation 21:24

By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

Revelation 21:26

And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

John 12:25

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 12:26

If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

John 16:4

But 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.

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.

Luke 14:27

And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.

Luke 14:28

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

Luke 14:29

Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,

Luke 14:30

saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’

Luke 14:31

Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32

And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

Luke 14:33

In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.

Acts 9:16

I will show him how much he must suffer for My name.”

1 Thessalonians 3:3

so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.

1 Thessalonians 3:4

Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

That 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.

2 Thessalonians 1:5

All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

2 Thessalonians 1:7

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 1:9

They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

2 Thessalonians 1:10

on the day He comes to be glorified in His saints and regarded with wonder by all who have believed, including you who have believed our testimony.

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

Revelation 1:5

and 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,

John 13:33

Little 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 17:24

Father, 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.

Hebrews 6:20

where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 9:8

By 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 9:23

So 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 9:24

For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

Hebrews 9:25

Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Hebrews 9:26

Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Revelation 21:2

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.