John 14:1-14

New King James Version

The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 “Let ^(A)not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ²In My Father’s house are many ^[a]mansions; if it were not so, ^[b]I would have told you. ^(B)I go to prepare a place for you. ³And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^(C)I will come again and receive you to Myself; that ^(D)where I am, there you may be also. ⁴And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

⁵^(E)Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

⁶Jesus said to him, “I am ^(F)the way, ^(G)the truth, and ^(H)the life. ^(I)No one comes to the Father ^(J)except through Me.

The Father Revealed

⁷^(K)“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

⁸Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? ^(L)He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰Do you not believe that ^(M)I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you ^(N)I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, ^(O)or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

The Answered Prayer

¹²^(P)“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ¹³^(Q)And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be ^(R)glorified in the Son. ¹⁴If you ^[c]ask anything in My name, I will do it.

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Footnotes

John 14:2 Lit. dwellings
John 14:2 NU would I have told you that I go or I would have told you; for I go
John 14:14 NU ask Me

Revelation 1:1-8

New King James Version

Introduction and Benediction

1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, ^(A)which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must ^[a]shortly take place. And ^(B)He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, ²^(C)who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things ^(D)that he saw. ³^(E)Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for ^(F)the time is near.

Greeting the Seven Churches

⁴John, to the seven churches which are in Asia:

Grace to you and peace from Him ^(G)who is and ^(H)who was and who is to come, ^(I)and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, ⁵and from Jesus Christ, ^(J)the faithful ^(K)witness, the ^(L)firstborn from the dead, and ^(M)the ruler over the kings of the earth.

To Him ^(N)who ^[b]loved us ^(O)and washed us from our sins in His own blood, ⁶and has ^(P)made us ^[c]kings and priests to His God and Father, ^(Q)to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

⁷Behold, He is coming with ^(R)clouds, and every eye will see Him, even ^(S)they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.

⁸^(T)“I am the Alpha and the Omega, ^[d]the Beginning and the End,” says the ^[e]Lord, ^(U)“who is and who was and who is to come, the ^(V)Almighty.”

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Revelation 1:1 quickly or swiftly
Revelation 1:5 NU loves us and freed; M loves us and washed
Revelation 1:6 NU, M a kingdom
Revelation 1:8 NU, M omit the Beginning and the End
Revelation 1:8 NU, M Lord God

Job 23

New King James Version

Job Proclaims God’s Righteous Judgments

23 Then Job answered and said:

²“Even today my ^(A)complaint is bitter;
^[a]My hand is listless because of my groaning.
³^(B)Oh, that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!
⁴I would present my case before Him,
And fill my mouth with arguments.
⁵I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.
⁶^(C)Would He contend with me in His great power?
No! But He would take note of me.
⁷There the upright could reason with Him,
And I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

⁸“Look,^(D) I go forward, but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;
⁹When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him;
When He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him.
¹⁰But ^(E)He knows the way that I take;
When ^(F)He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
¹¹^(G)My foot has held fast to His steps;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
¹²I have not departed from the ^(H)commandment of His lips;
^(I)I have treasured the words of His mouth
More than my ^[b]necessary food.

¹³“But He is unique, and who can make Him change?
And whatever ^(J)His soul desires, that He does.
¹⁴For He performs what is ^(K)appointed for me,
And many such things are with Him.
¹⁵Therefore I am terrified at His presence;
When I consider this, I am afraid of Him.
¹⁶For God ^(L)made my heart weak,
And the Almighty terrifies me;
¹⁷Because I was not ^(M)cut off ^[c]from the presence of darkness,
And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.

Footnotes

Job 23:2 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. His
Job 23:12 Lit. appointed portion
Job 23:17 Or by or before

Hosea 1-3

New King James Version

Hosea’s Unfaithful Wife

1 The word of the Lord that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of ^(A)Uzziah, ^(B)Jotham, ^(C)Ahaz, and ^(D)Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of ^(E)Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

The Family of Hosea

²When the Lord began to speak by Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea:

^(F)“Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry
And children of harlotry,
For ^(G)the land has committed great ^[a]harlotry
By departing from the Lord.”

³So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. ⁴Then the Lord said to him:

“Call his name Jezreel,
For in a little while
^(H)I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu,
^(I)And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
⁵^(J)It shall come to pass in that day
That I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

⁶And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him:

“Call her name ^[b]Lo-Ruhamah,
^(K)For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel,
^[c]But I will utterly take them away.
⁷^(L)Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah,
Will save them by the Lord their God,
And ^(M)will not save them by bow,
Nor by sword or battle,
By horses or horsemen.”

⁸Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. ⁹Then God said:

“Call his name ^[d]Lo-Ammi,
For you are not My people,
And I will not be your God.

The Restoration of Israel

¹⁰“Yet ^(N)the number of the children of Israel
Shall be as the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered.
^(O)And it shall come to pass
In the place where it was said to them,
‘You are ^[e]not My ^(P)people,’
There it shall be said to them,
‘You are ^(Q)sons of the living God.’
¹¹^(R)Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel
Shall be gathered together,
And appoint for themselves one head;
And they shall come up out of the land,
For great will be the day of Jezreel!

The Lord’s Love for His Unfaithful People

2 Say to your brethren, ^[f]‘My people,’
And to your sisters, ^[g]‘Mercy is shown.’

God’s Unfaithful People

²“Bring^[h] charges against your mother, ^[i]bring charges;
For ^(S)she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
Let her put away her ^(T)harlotries from her sight,
And her adulteries from between her breasts;
³Lest ^(U)I strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was ^(V)born,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with ^(W)thirst.

⁴“I will not have mercy on her children,
For they are the ^(X)children of harlotry.
⁵For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
^(Y)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’

⁶“Therefore, behold,
^(Z)I will hedge up your way with thorns,
And ^[j]wall her in,
So that she cannot find her paths.
⁷She will ^[k]chase her lovers,
But not overtake them;
Yes, she will seek them, but not find them.
Then she will say,
^(AA)‘I will go and return to my ^(AB)first husband,
For then it was better for me than now.’
⁸For she did not ^(AC)know
That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil,
And multiplied her silver and gold—
Which they prepared for Baal.

⁹“Therefore I will return and take away
My grain in its time
And My new wine in its season,
And will take back My wool and My linen,
Given to cover her nakedness.
¹⁰Now ^(AD)I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
¹¹^(AE)I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
Her feast days,
Her New Moons,
Her Sabbaths—
All her appointed feasts.

¹²“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
Of which she has said,
‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’
So I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
¹³I will punish her
For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense.
She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And went after her lovers;
But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.

God’s Mercy on His People

¹⁴“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Will bring her into the wilderness,
And speak ^[l]comfort to her.
¹⁵I will give her her vineyards from there,
And ^(AF)the Valley of Achor as a door of hope;
She shall sing there,
As in ^(AG)the days of her youth,
^(AH)As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

¹⁶“And it shall be, in that day,”
Says the Lord,
“That you will call Me ^[m]‘My Husband,’
And no longer call Me ^[n]‘My Master,’
¹⁷For ^(AI)I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals,
And they shall be remembered by their name no more.
¹⁸In that day I will make a ^(AJ)covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
With the birds of the air,
And with the creeping things of the ground.
Bow and sword of battle ^(AK)I will shatter from the earth,
To make them ^(AL)lie down safely.

¹⁹“I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy;
²⁰I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And ^(AM)you shall know the Lord.

²¹“It shall come to pass in that day
That ^(AN)I will answer,” says the Lord;
“I will answer the heavens,
And they shall answer the earth.
²²The earth shall answer
With grain,
With new wine,
And with oil;
They shall answer ^[o]Jezreel.
²³Then ^(AO)I will sow her for Myself in the earth,
^(AP)And I will have mercy on her who had ^[p]not obtained mercy;
Then ^(AQ)I will say to those who were ^[q]not My people,
‘You are ^[r]My people!’
And they shall say, ‘You are my God!’ ”

Israel Will Return to God

3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by a ^(AR)lover^[s] and is committing adultery, just like the love of the Lord for the children of Israel, who look to other gods and love the raisin cakes of the pagans.”

²So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley. ³And I said to her, “You shall ^(AS)stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”

⁴For the children of Israel shall abide many days ^(AT)without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ^(AU)ephod or ^(AV)teraphim. ⁵Afterward the children of Israel shall return and ^(AW)seek the Lord their God and ^(AX)David their king. They shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the ^(AY)latter days.