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21 The person who has my commandments and obeys[a] them is the one who loves me.[b] The one[c] who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal[d] myself to him.”

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  1. John 14:21 tn Or “keeps.”
  2. John 14:21 tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”
  3. John 14:21 tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.
  4. John 14:21 tn Or “will disclose.”

20 Listen![a] I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home[b] and share a meal with him, and he with me.

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  1. Revelation 3:20 tn Grk “Behold.”
  2. Revelation 3:20 tn Grk “come in to him.”sn The expression in Greek does not mean entrance into the person, as is popularly taken, but entrance into a room or building toward the person. See ExSyn 380-82. Some interpreters understand the door here to be the door to the Laodicean church, and thus a collective or corporate image rather than an individual one.