Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. | Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. |
Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. |
God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. | Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. |
Again he said, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I am sending you.” | Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” |
Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.” | Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” |
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. | Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. |
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. | Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. |
And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. | This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. |
When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. | This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. |
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. | For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. |
Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” | Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” |
All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. | If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. |
And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. | And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. |
And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. | Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. |
And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers. | And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. |
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. | And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever. |
You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. | And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. |
I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! | I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. |
And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. | Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. |
And when he comes, he will convict the world of its sin, and of God’s righteousness, and of the coming judgment. | When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. |
I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. | My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. |
But Jesus told them, “I will be with you only a little longer. Then I will return to the one who sent me.” | Jesus said, “I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.” |
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” | Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” |
And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. | This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. |
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. | Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. |
Bible verse of the day
He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect.Everything he does is just and fair.
He is a faithful God who does no wrong;
how just and upright he is!