He must increase; I must decrease. | He must increase, but I must decrease. |
If you love me, you will keep my commandments. | If you love me, you will keep my commandments. |
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Therefore, we love because he first loved us. | We love because he first loved us. |
Dear children, keep away from idols. | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. |
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. | I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. |
Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you then will truly be free. | So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. |
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. | Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. | You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. |
This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
Beloved, since God loved us so much, we should love one another. | Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. |
You have already been cleansed by the word I have spoken to you. | Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. |
Everyone who sins breaks the law, for sin is lawlessness. | Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. |
If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. | If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. |
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, it will be enough for us.” | Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” |
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You place your trust in God. Trust also in me. | Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. |
Whoever feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I dwell in him. | Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. |
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has been unable to overcome it. | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. |
What then if you were to behold the Son of Man ascend 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. |
Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not my own; rather, it comes from him who sent me.” | So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.” |
No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. | Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
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. |
Nothing gives me greater joy than 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. | That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. |
Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. | Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. |