Parallel Bible results for "john 14:15-31"

John 14:15-31

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15 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
15 "If you love me, show it by doing what I've told you.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
16 I will talk to the Father, and he'll provide you another Friend so that you will always have someone with you.
17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
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!
18 "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
18 "I will not leave you orphaned. I'm coming back.
19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
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.
20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
20 At that moment you will know absolutely that I'm in my Father, and you're in me, and I'm in you.
21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
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."
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?"
22 Judas (not Iscariot) said, "Master, why is it that you are about to make yourself plain to us but not to the world?"
23 Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
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!
24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.
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.
25 "These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.
25 "I'm telling you these things while I'm still living with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to 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.
27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
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.
28 You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
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.
29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.
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.
30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,
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.
31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
31 But so the world might know how thoroughly I love the Father, I am carrying out my Father's instructions right down to the last detail. "Get up. Let's go. It's time to leave here.
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.