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15 "If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you.
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“If you love me, keep my commands.
16 I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.
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And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—
17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can't take him in because it doesn't have eyes to see him, doesn't know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!
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the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
18 "I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back.
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I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 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.
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Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
20 At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.
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On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
21 "The person who knows my commandments and keeps them, that's who loves me. And the person who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and make myself plain to him."
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Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said, "Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?"
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Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”
23 "Because a loveless world," said Jesus, "is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him - we'll move right into the neighborhood!
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Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.
24 Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn't mine. It's the message of the Father who sent me.
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Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
25 "I'm telling you these things while I'm still living with you.
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“All this I have spoken while still with you.
26 The Friend, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will make everything plain to you. He will remind you of all the things I have told you.
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But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
27 I'm leaving you well and whole. That's my parting gift to you. Peace. I don't leave you the way you're used to being left - feeling abandoned, bereft. So don't be upset. Don't be distraught.
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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
28 "You've heard me tell you, 'I'm going away, and I'm coming back.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I'm on my way to the Father because the Father is the goal and purpose of my life.
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“You heard me say, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
29 "I've told you this ahead of time, before it happens, so that when it does happen, the confirmation will deepen your belief in me.
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I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
30 I'll not be talking with you much more like this because the chief of this godless world is about to attack. But don't worry - he has nothing on me, no claim on me.
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I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me,
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