John 14:15-31

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 ¹"If you love me, you will ²keep my commandments.

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another ³Helper,^[a] to be with you forever,

17 even ⁴the Spirit of truth, ⁵whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and ⁶will be in you.

18 "I will not leave you as orphans; ⁷I will come to you.

19 ⁸Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but ⁹you will see me. ¹⁰Because I live, you also will live.

20 ¹¹In that day you will know that ¹²I am in my Father, and ¹³you in me, and ¹⁴I in you.

21 ¹⁵Whoever has my commandments and ¹⁶keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ¹⁷he who loves me ¹⁸will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and ¹⁹manifest myself to him."

22 ²⁰Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it ²¹that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?"

23 Jesus answered him, ²²"If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and ²³we will come to him and ²⁴make our home with him.

24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And ²⁵the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

25 "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.

26 But the ²⁶Helper, the Holy Spirit, ²⁷whom the Father will send in my name, ²⁸he will teach you all things and ²⁹bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

27 ³⁰Peace I leave with you; ³¹my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ³²Let not your hearts be troubled, neither ³³let them be afraid.

28 ³⁴You heard me say to you, ³⁵'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ³⁶am going to the Father, for ³⁷the Father is greater than I.

29 And ³⁸now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

30 I will no longer talk much with you, for ³⁹the ruler of this world is coming. ⁴⁰He has no claim on me,

31 but I do ⁴¹as the Father has commanded me, ⁴²so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

Cross References

• 1. ver. 21, 23; John 15:10; 1 John 5:3; 2 John 6
• 2. See 1 John 2:3
• 3. ver. 26; John 15:26; John 16:7
• 4. John 15:26; John 16:13; [1 Corinthians 2:12-14; 1 John 2:27; 1 John 4:6; 1 John 5:7]
• 5. 1 Corinthians 2:14
• 6. Acts 2:4; [1 John 2:27; 2 John 2]; See Romans 8:9
• 7. ver. 3, 28
• 8. See John 7:33
• 9. [John 12:45; John 16:16]
• 10. [Romans 5:10; Ephesians 2:5; Revelation 20:4]
• 11. John 16:23, 26
• 12. ver. 10
• 13. [John 15:4-7]; See 1 John 2:28
• 14. John 17:21, 23, 26
• 15. [John 7:17; John 8:31, 32]
• 16. ver. 15; 1 John 2:5
• 17. John 16:27
• 18. [John 12:26]
• 19. See John 7:4
• 20. Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13
• 21. [Acts 10:40, 41]
• 22. See ver. 15, 21
• 23. Revelation 3:20
• 24. [2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 John 2:24]
• 25. [ver. 10]; See John 7:16
• 26. See ver. 16
• 27. [Luke 24:49; Acts 2:33, with ch. 15:26; Acts 16:7]
• 28. John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 2:10; 1 John 2:20, 27
• 29. See John 2:22
• 30. John 20:19, 21, 26; Luke 24:36
• 31. John 16:33; Colossians 3:15; [Ephesians 2:17; Philippians 4:7]
• 32. ver. 1
• 33. 2 Timothy 1:7
• 34. ver. 2-4
• 35. See John 8:21
• 36. See ver. 12
• 37. [John 10:29; Philippians 2:6]
• 38. John 13:19; John 16:4
• 39. See John 12:31
• 40. [John 17:14; John 18:36; Hebrews 4:15]
• 41. John 12:49, 50; Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 5:8
• 42. John 17:21, 23

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Advocate, or Counselor; also 14:26; 15:26; 16:7