John 14:15-30

15 "If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth.

17 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you.

18 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you.

19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live.

20 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you.

21 He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him."

22 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?"

23 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

24 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me.

25 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you.

26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you.

27 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed.

28 "You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I am.

29 I have now told you before it comes to pass, that when it has come to pass you may believe.

30 In future I shall not talk much with you, for the Prince of this world is coming. And yet in me he has nothing;