Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you.

New American Standard Bible

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

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.

International Standard Version

There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?

A Conservative Version

In my Father's house are many dwellings, and if not, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

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.

Amplified

In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you.

An Understandable Version

There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for each one you [in them]. I would not have told you this if it were not so.

Anderson New Testament

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.

Bible in Basic English

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

Common New Testament

In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Daniel Mace New Testament

in my father's house are many mansions; however, I have told you, I am going to prepare a place for you:

Darby Translation

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;

Godbey New Testament

Many mansions are in the house of my Father; but if it were not so, I would have told you; because I go to prepare a place for you.

Goodspeed New Testament

There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

John Wesley New Testament

In my Father's house are many mansions; if not, I would have told you.

Julia Smith Translation

In my Father's house are many dwellings: and if not, I had said to you. I go to prepare a place for you.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you.

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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.

Moffatt New Testament

In my Father's house there are many abodes; were it not so, would I have told you that I was going to prepare a place for you?

Montgomery New Testament

In my Father's house there are many rooms If it were not so, would I have told you that I went to prepare a place for you?

NET Bible

There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

New Heart English Bible

In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it weren't so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.

Noyes New Testament

In my Fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. For I go away to prepare a place for you;

Sawyer New Testament

In my Father's house are many mansions; if there were not I would have told you.

The Emphasized Bible

In the house of my Father, are, many dwellings; or else I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

In my Father's Home there are many dwellings. If it had not been so, I should have told you, for I am going to prepare a place for you.

Webster

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.

Weymouth New Testament

In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.

Williams New Testament

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

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.

Worrell New Testament

In My Father's house are many abiding-places; otherwise, I would have told you; because I am going to prepare a place for you.

Worsley New Testament

In my Father's house there are many mansions; if not, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Youngs 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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

my
μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180

οἰκία 
Oikia 
Usage: 46

are
εἰσί 
Eisi 
are, be, were, have, not tr,
Usage: 97

πολύς πολλός 
Polus 
Usage: 292

μονή 
Mone 
Usage: 0

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

it were not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

so, I would have told
ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

you
ὑμῖν 
Humin 
you, ye, your, not tr,
Usage: 293

I go
πορεύομαι 
Poreuomai 
go, depart, walk, go way,
Usage: 101

to prepare
ἑτοιμάζω 
hetoimazo 
Usage: 27

a place
τόπος 
Topos 
Usage: 75

Devotionals

Devotionals about John 14:2

Images John 14:2

Prayers for John 14:2

Context Readings

Jesus' Farewell Discourse

1 “Your heart must not be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. 2 In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if not, I would have told you. I am going away to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also.


Cross References

John 13:33

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

John 13:36

“Lord,” Simon Peter said to Him, “where are You going?”

Jesus answered, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but you will follow later.”

2 Corinthians 5:1

For we know that if our temporary, earthly dwelling is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling in the heavens, not made with hands.

John 12:25-26

The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 16:4

But I have told you these things so that when their time comes you may remember I told them to you. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

John 17:24

Father,
I desire those You have given Me
to be with Me where I am.
Then they will see My glory,
which You have given Me
because You loved Me before the world’s foundation.

Acts 9:16

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

1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

so that no one will be shaken by these persecutions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 Thessalonians 1:4-10

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches—about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

Titus 1:2

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

Hebrews 6:20

Jesus has entered there on our behalf as a forerunner, because He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

Hebrews 9:8

The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

Hebrews 9:23-26

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 11:10

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

Hebrews 11:14-16

Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

Hebrews 13:14

For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.

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 set us free from our sins by His blood,

Revelation 3:12

The victor: I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of My God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God—the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God—and My new name.

Revelation 3:21

The victor: I will give him the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I also won the victory and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Revelation 21:2

I also saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 21:10-27

He then carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

Luke 14:26-33

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

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