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John 14:18

"I will not leave you all alone like orphans. I will come back to you.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Communion;   God;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Righteous;   Scofield Reference Index - World-System;   Thompson Chain Reference - Christ;   Comfort;   Comfort-Misery;   Constancy, Divine;   Divine;   Friendship-Friendlessness;   Future, the;   Heaven;   Heavenly;   Holy Spirit;   Home;   Promises, Divine;   Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Comfort;   Giving and Gifts;   Holy Spirit;   Jesus Christ;   Life;   Truth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;   Affliction, Consolation under;   Communion with God;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Holy spirit;   Resurrection;   Teacher;   Trinity;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Comfort;   Consolation;   Counselor;   Faith;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Follow, Follower;   Orphan;   Sanctification;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Adoption;   Coming of Christ;   Orphans;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Advocate;   Baptism;   Holy Spirit, the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Helper;   Security of the Believer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Advocate;   Children (Sons) of God;   God;   Holy Spirit;   John, Theology of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Character;   Comfort (2);   Coming Again;   Communion (2);   Death of Christ;   Desolation;   Devotion;   Force;   Foresight;   Gentleness (2);   Kenosis;   Manuscripts;   Parousia;   Religious Experience;   Sanctify, Sanctification;   Spirit ;   Trinity (2);   Unity (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fruit;   Holy ghost;   Pentecost;   Samuel;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Authority in Religion;   Blasphemy;   Comfortless;   Eschatology of the New Testament;   Fatherless;   Johannine Theology, the;   Orphan;   Paraclete;   Parousia;   Trinity;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 28;   Every Day Light - Devotion for March 9;   Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
King James Version (1611)
I wil not leaue you comfortlesse, I will come to you.
King James Version
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
English Standard Version
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
New American Standard Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
New Century Version
"I will not leave you all alone like orphans; I will come back to you.
Amplified Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, bereaved, and helpless]; I will come [back] to you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Legacy Standard Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Berean Standard Bible
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
Contemporary English Version
I won't leave you like orphans. I will come back to you.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will not leave you orphans — I am coming to you.
Darby Translation
I will not leave you orphans, I am coming to you.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I will not leaue you fatherles: but I will come to you.
George Lamsa Translation
I will not leave you orphans, for I will come to you after a little while.
Good News Translation
"When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.
Lexham English Bible
"I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.
Literal Translation
I will not leave you orphans; I am coming to you.
American Standard Version
I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
Bible in Basic English
I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.
Hebrew Names Version
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
International Standard Version
I am not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.Matthew 28:20; John 14:3,28;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
I will not leave you orphans; for I will come to you a little after.
Murdock Translation
I shall not leave you orphans: for I shall come to you in a little while.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll not leaue you comfortlesse, but wyll come to you.
English Revised Version
I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you.
World English Bible
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I will not leave you orphans; I come to you.
Weymouth's New Testament
I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal not leeue you fadirles, Y schal come to you.
Update Bible Version
I will not leave you desolate: I come to you.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.
New English Translation
"I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.
New King James Version
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
New Living Translation
No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.
New Life Bible
"I will not leave you without help as children without parents. I will come to you.
New Revised Standard
"I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will not leave you bereft, - I am coming unto you.
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will not leave you orphans: I will come to you.
Revised Standard Version
"I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I will not leave you comfortlesse: but will come vnto you.
Young's Literal Translation
`I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil not leaue you cofortles, I come vnto you.
Mace New Testament (1729)
I will not leave you orphans; I will come again to you.
THE MESSAGE
"I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you're going to see me because I am alive and you're about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.
Simplified Cowboy Version
"I ain't gonna run off and leave you like a dogie calf. I'll come get you.

Contextual Overview

18 "I will not leave you all alone like orphans. I will come back to you. 19 In a very short time the people in the world will not see me anymore. But you will see me. You will live because I live. 20 On that day you will know that I am in the Father. You will know that you are in me and I am in you. 21 Those who really love me are the ones who not only know my commands but also obey them. My Father will love such people, and I will love them. I will make myself known to them." 22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "Lord, how will you make yourself known to us, but not to the world?" 23 Jesus answered, "All who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them. My Father and I will come to them and live with them. 24 But anyone who does not love me does not obey my teaching. This teaching that you hear is not really mine. It is from my Father who sent me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will not: John 14:16, John 14:27, John 16:33, Psalms 23:4, Isaiah 43:1, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 66:11-13, 2 Corinthians 1:2-6, 2 Thessalonians 2:16, Hebrews 2:18

comfortless: or, orphans, Lamentations 5:3, Hosea 14:3

will come: John 14:3, John 14:28, Psalms 101:2, Hosea 6:3, Matthew 18:20, Matthew 28:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 141:8 - leave not my soul destitute Proverbs 10:24 - the desire Proverbs 14:10 - and Luke 24:15 - Jesus John 6:19 - walking John 14:21 - and will Acts 23:11 - the Lord 2 Corinthians 1:4 - comforteth 2 Corinthians 4:8 - not in despair Philippians 2:1 - any consolation

Cross-References

Genesis 14:10
There were many holes filled with tar in the Valley of Siddim. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah and their armies ran away, some of the soldiers fell into these holes, but the others ran away to the mountains.
Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I promise to the Lord , the God Most High, the one who made heaven and earth.
Ruth 3:10
Then Boaz said, "May the Lord bless you, young woman. You have been very kind to me. Your kindness to me is greater than the kindness you showed to Naomi in the beginning. You could have looked for a young man to marry, rich or poor. But you did not.
2 Samuel 2:5
David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead. These messengers told the men in Jabesh: "The Lord bless you, because you have shown kindness to your lord Saul by burying him.
Psalms 7:17
I praise the Lord because he is good. I praise the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalms 50:14
You made promises to God Most High, so give him what you promised. Bring your sacrifices and thank offerings.
Psalms 57:2
I pray to God Most High for help, and he takes care of me completely!
Psalms 76:2
His Temple is in Salem. His house is on Mount Zion.
Micah 6:6
What must I bring when I come to meet with the Lord ? What must I do when I bow down to God above? Should I come to him with burnt offerings and a year-old calf?
Acts 7:48
"But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands. This is what the prophet writes:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will not leave you comfortless,.... Gr. "orphans", or "fatherless". Christ stands in the relation of a Father to his people, and they are his children, his spiritual seed and offspring; and so the disciples might fear, that as Christ was going from them, they should be left as children without a father, in a very desolate and comfortless, condition: to support them against these fears, Christ promises that he would not leave them thus, at least not long:

I will come to you; in a very short time, as he did; for on the third day he rose again from the dead, and appeared to them, which filled them with great joy. So among the Jews, disciples, and the world too, are represented as fatherless, when their doctors and wise men are removed by death. Says R. Aba, x and so sometimes others, concerning R. Simeon ben Jochai,

"woe to the world when thou shall go out of it, woe to the generation that shall be in the world when thou shall remove from them, וישתארון יתמין, "and they shall be left fatherless by thee".''

And in another place y;

"afterwards R. Akiba went out and cried, and his eyes flowed with water, and he said, woe Rabbi, woe Rabbi, for the world is left, יתום, "fatherless by thee".''

x Zohar in Num fol. 96. 3. & in Lev. fol. 42. 3. & in Exod. fol. 10. 3. & 28. 3. y Midrash Hannealam in Zohar in Gen. fol. 65. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Comfortless - Greek, “orphans.” Jesus here addresses them as children, John 13:33. He says that he would show them the kindness of a parent, and, though he was going away, he would provide for their future welfare. And even while he was absent, yet they would sustain to him still the relation of children. Though he was to die, yet he would live again; though absent in body, yet he would be present with them by his Spirit; though he was to go away to heaven, yet he would return again to them. See John 14:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 14:18. I will not leave you comfortless — Literally, orphans. The original word ορφανος, is by some derived from ορφνος, obscure, dark, because, says Mintert, an orphan (one deprived of father and mother) is little esteemed, neglected, and is obliged to wander about in obscurity and darkness. Others derive it from the Hebrew חרף charaph, to strip or make bare, despoil, because such a child is destitute of comfort, direction, and support, and is a prey to misery and disease, to sin and to death.

The disciples of a particular teacher among the Hebrews called him father; his scholars were called his children, and, on his death, were considered as orphans. Christ calls his disciples children, beloved children, John 13:33; and, now that he is about to be removed from them by death, he assures them that they shall not be left fatherless, or without a teacher; for in a little time he should come again, (rise from the dead,) and, after his ascension, they should be made partakers of that Spirit which would be their comforter, advocate, teacher, and guide for ever.


 
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