John 16:27

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved

King James Version (1611)
For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me and haue beleeued that I came out from God.

King James Version
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

English Standard Version
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

New American Standard Bible
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

New Century Version
The Father himself loves you. He loves you because you loved me and believed that I came from God.

Amplified Bible
for the Father Himself [tenderly] loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from the Father.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

Legacy Standard Bible
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

Berean Standard Bible
For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.

Contemporary English Version
God the Father loves you because you love me, and you believe that I have come from him.

Complete Jewish Bible
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Darby Translation
for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Father himself loves you because you have loved me. And he loves you because you have believed that I came from God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleeued that I came out from God.

George Lamsa Translation
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

Good News Translation
for the Father himself loves you. He loves you because you love me and have believed that I came from God.

Lexham English Bible
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Literal Translation
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.

American Standard Version
for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

Bible in Basic English
For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.

Hebrew Names Version
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

International Standard Version
For the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.from the Father">[fn]John 3:13; 17:8;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
for the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me, and have believed that from the Father I came forth.

Murdock Translation
for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I proceeded from the presence of the Father.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the father hym selfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleued that I came out from God.

English Revised Version
for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

World English Bible
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed, that I came forth from God.

Weymouth's New Testament
for the Father Himself holds you dear, because you have held me dear and have believed that I came from the Father's presence.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for the fadir hym silf loueth you, for ye han loued me, and han bileued, that Y wente out fro God.

Update Bible Version
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

New English Translation
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

New King James Version
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

New Living Translation
for the Father himself loves you dearly because you love me and believe that I came from God.

New Life Bible
because the Father loves you. He loves you because you love Me and believe that I came from the Father.

New Revised Standard
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, the Father himself, dearly loveth you, because, ye, have dearly loved me, and believed that, I, from the Father, came forth: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God.

Revised Standard Version
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For ye father him selfe loveth you because ye have loved me and have beleved that I came out from God.

Young's Literal Translation
for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the father himself loueth you, because ye haue loued me, & beleued that I am come out from God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for the father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I had my mission from God.

Simplified Cowboy Version
The whole point of all of this is to bring you close to God because he loves you so much.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ "I've told you these things to prepare you for rough times ahead. They are going to throw you out of the meeting places. There will even come a time when anyone who kills you will think he's doing God a favor. They will do these things because they never really understood the Father. I've told you these things so that when the time comes and they start in on you, you'll be well-warned and ready for them. "I didn't tell you this earlier because I was with you every day. But now I am on my way to the One who sent me. Not one of you has asked, ‘Where are you going?' Instead, the longer I've talked, the sadder you've become. So let me say it again, this truth: It's better for you that I leave. If I don't leave, the Friend won't come. But if I go, I'll send him to you. "When he comes, he'll expose the error of the godless world's view of sin, righteousness, and judgment: He'll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin; that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control; that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted. "I still have many things to tell you, but you can't handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you. Everything the Father has is also mine. That is why I've said, ‘He takes from me and delivers to you.' "In a day or so you're not going to see me, but then in another day or so you will see me." That stirred up a hornet's nest of questions among the disciples: "What's he talking about: ‘In a day or so you're not going to see me, but then in another day or so you will see me'? And, ‘Because I'm on my way to the Father'? What is this ‘day or so'? We don't know what he's talking about." Jesus knew they were dying to ask him what he meant, so he said, "Are you trying to figure out among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘In a day or so you're not going to see me, but then in another day or so you will see me'? Then fix this firmly in your minds: You're going to be in deep mourning while the godless world throws a party. You'll be sad, very sad, but your sadness will develop into gladness. "When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there's no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the birth. This new life in the world wipes out memory of the pain. The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the coming joy is also similar. When I see you again, you'll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you. You'll no longer be so full of questions. "This is what I want you to do: Ask the Father for whatever is in keeping with the things I've revealed to you. Ask in my name, according to my will, and he'll most certainly give it to you. Your joy will be a river overflowing its banks! ²⁵"I've used figures of speech in telling you these things. Soon I'll drop the figures and tell you about the Father in plain language. Then you can make your requests directly to him in relation to this life I've revealed to you. I won't continue making requests of the Father on your behalf. I won't need to. Because you've gone out on a limb, committed yourselves to love and trust in me, believing I came directly from the Father, the Father loves you directly. First, I left the Father and arrived in the world; now I leave the world and travel to the Father."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Father: John 14:21, John 14:23, John 17:23, John 17:26, Zephaniah 3:17, Hebrews 12:6, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21, Revelation 3:9, Revelation 3:19

because: John 8:42, John 21:15-17, Matthew 10:37, 1 Corinthians 16:22, 2 Corinthians 5:14, Ephesians 6:24, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 John 4:19

and have: John 16:30, John 3:13, John 7:29, John 17:7, John 17:8, John 17:25, Romans 8:3, 1 Corinthians 15:47, Galatians 4:4, 1 Timothy 1:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:13 - he will love Psalms 91:14 - set Psalms 146:8 - loveth Proverbs 8:17 - I love Isaiah 43:4 - I Have John 3:31 - he that cometh John 11:5 - loved John 13:3 - and that John 14:16 - I will John 17:9 - pray for Romans 8:34 - who also Romans 8:39 - love Romans 9:25 - beloved Ephesians 4:9 - he also

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Father himself loveth you,.... The Father loved them as well, and as much as the Son did, and of himself too, without any merit or motive in them: he loved them from everlasting, and had given proofs of it in time, in the gift of his Son to them, and for them; and in calling them by his grace; and therefore being thus strongly affected to them, they might depend upon a ready and speedy answer from him, as might be best for his glory, and their good.

Because ye have loved me; not that their love to Christ was the cause of the Father's love to them; but, on the contrary, the Father's love to them was the cause of their love to Christ; and therefore as the cause is known by its effect, they might be assured of the Father's love to them by their love to Christ; for if the Father had not loved them, they had never loved God, nor Christ; but since they did love Christ, it was a clear case the Father loved them: and this their love is joined with faith;

and have believed that I came out from God; being sent by him, and am no impostor, but the true Messiah that was to come: faith in Christ, and love to him, go together; where the one is, there is the other; faith works by love; they are both the gifts of God's grace, and the fruits and effects of his everlasting love; and those who are possessed of them may be firmly persuaded of their interest therein.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See John 14:21, John 14:23.