John 12:26
Good News Translation
Whoever wants to serve me must follow me, so that my servant will be with me where I am. And my Father will honor anyone who serves me.

New Revised Standard Version
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.

Contemporary English Version
If you serve me, you must go with me. My servants will be with me wherever I am. If you serve me, my Father will honor you.

New American Bible
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour.

serve.

John 13:16 Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 15:20 Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Luke 6:46 And why call you me, Lord, Lord; and do not the things which I say?

Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God.

Romans 14:18 For he that in this serveth Christ pleaseth God and is approved of men.

2 Corinthians 4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord: and ourselves your servants through Jesus.

Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Colossians 3:24 Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

Colossians 4:12 Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and full in all the will of God.

2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:3 For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy.

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.

let.

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice. And I know them: and they follow me.

John 21:22 Jesus saith to him: So I will have him to remain till I come, what is it to thee? Follow thou me.

Numbers 14:24 My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

Numbers 32:11 If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Mark 8:34 And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Luke 9:23 And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

Ephesians 5:1,2 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: . . .

Revelation 14:4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

where.

John 14:3 And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.

John 17:24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

Psalm 17:15 But as for me, I will appear before thy sight in justice: I shall be satisfied when thy glory shall appear.

Matthew 25:21 His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

2 Corinthians 5:8 But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Philippians 1:23 But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

1 Thessalonians 4:17,18 Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord. . . .

him.

John 14:21-23 He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him. . . .

1 Samuel 2:30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Proverbs 27:18 He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eat the fruit thereof: and he that is the keeper of his master, shall be glorified.

Context
Jesus Predicts His Death
25Itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it and he that hateth his life in this world keepeth it unto life eternal. 26If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be. If any man minister to me, him will my Father honour. 27Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Psalm 91:15
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.

Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

John 14:3
And if I shall go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself: that where I am, you also may be.

John 17:24
Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

2 Corinthians 5:8
But we are confident and have a good will to be absent rather from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Philippians 1:23
But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

John 12:25
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