This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. |
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. |
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You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that’s what I am. | You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. |
So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.” | Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.” |
You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. | You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. |
Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again? | Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? |
And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. | By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his 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 have love for one another. |
God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. | All things were made through him. 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.” | Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.” |
For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth. | God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. |
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. | Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. |
Jesus responded, “Didn’t I tell you that you would see God’s glory if you believe?” | Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?” |
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. | He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. |
Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. |
I could have no greater joy than to hear that my children are following the truth. | I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. |
Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. | Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. |
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. | For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. |
In the beginning the Word already existed. 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. |
And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. | This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. |
Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. | That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. |
Jesus told them, “This is the only work God wants from you: Believe in the one he has sent.” | Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” |
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. | But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name. |
God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. | For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. |
I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one. | I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. |