| He must increase, but I must decrease. | He must become greater; I must become less. |
| We love because he first loved us. | We love because He first loved us. |
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| If you love me, you will keep my commandments. | If you love me, keep my commands. |
| Little children, keep yourselves from idols. | Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. |
| I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. | I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. |
| So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. | So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. |
| Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. | Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
| You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. | You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. |
| If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. | If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. |
| Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” | Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” |
| This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. |
| You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. | You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. |
| Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. | Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
| Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. | Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. |
| Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. | Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. |
| The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. |
| Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. | Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. |
| Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.” | Jesus answered, “My teaching is not my own. It comes from the one who sent me.” |
| Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? | Then what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! |
| God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. | God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. |
| In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. |
| No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. | Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. |
| I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth. | I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
| What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. | Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. |
| Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. | Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. |
