The Bible in Basic English BBE
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15 If you have love for me, you will keep my laws.
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“If you love me, keep my commands.
16 And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
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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 Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will 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 let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.
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I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19 A little time longer, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me; and you will be living because I am living.
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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 time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I 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 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by 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 to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by 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 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
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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 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's 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 have said all this to you while I am still with you.
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“All this I have spoken while still with you.
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to 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 May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.
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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 Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
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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 And now I have given you word of it before it comes, so that, when it comes, you may have faith.
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I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe.
30 After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over 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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