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NASB | John 14:21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 14:21 "The person who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him [I will make Myself real to him]." |
Bible Question:
'whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father' Can anyone expound to this part of the verse? Whenever I read it, I think 'OK. I have to keep Jesus' commands, then the Father will love me'. I can't reconciled this passage with John 3:16. 'For God so loved the world...'. And I John 4:10. 'Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins' thanks in advance to those who respond... |
Bible Answer: mbooker, Look at John 14:21 in its full context of verses before and after and then compare it to the Deut 7:7-15. It is God who takes the initiative in both contexts. Duet 7 7: It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples; 8: but it is because the LORD loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9: Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10: and requites to their face those who hate him, by destroying them; he will not be slack with him who hates him, he will requite him to his face. 11: You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day. 12: "And because you hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which he swore to your fathers to keep; 13: he will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you. 14: You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 15: And the LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but he will lay them upon all who hate you. Emmaus |