He must increase, but I must decrease. | He must increase, but I must decrease. |
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, you will keep my commandments. |
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. |
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. | I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. |
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. | So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. |
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. | Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. |
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. | You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. |
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. |
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” | Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” |
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. | If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. |
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. | You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. |
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. | Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. |
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. |
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. | Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. |
So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.” | Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.” |
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? | Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? |
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. | God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. |
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. | Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. |
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. |
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. | I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. | Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. |
That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. | What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. |