| Dear children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. | Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. |
| Jesus replied, “Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.” | Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” |
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| This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples: if you love one another. | By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. |
| Jesus replied, “This is the work of God: to believe in the one whom he has sent.” | Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” |
| By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. | This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. |
| And this is the testimony: God gave 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. |
| “Peace be with you,” Jesus said to them again. “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” | Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” |
| Through him all things came into existence, and without him there was nothing. That which came to be. | Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. |
| For from the beginning you have heard the message that we should love one another. | For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. |
| Who indeed conquers the world except the one who believes 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. |
| Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you have faith you will see the glory of God?” | Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” |
| God abides in anyone who acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, and that person abides in God. | If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. |
| Whatever you ask in my name I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. | And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. |
| Whoever possesses the Son possesses life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not possess life. | Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. |
| And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. | When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment. |
| I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. | I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. |
| And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever. | And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever. |
| This is the commandment we have received from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. | And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. |
| This is how we can be certain that we abide in him and that he abides in us: he has given us a share in his Spirit. | This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. |
| So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. | Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. |
| If you know me, then you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him. You have seen him. | If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him. |
| Jesus then said, “I will remain with you only for a short time longer, and then I shall return to him 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.” |
| I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I do ask you to protect them 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. |
| Jesus replied, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes 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 eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent, Jesus Christ. | Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. |
