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, keep My commandments. |
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Therefore, we love because he first loved us. | We love Him because He first loved us. |
Dear children, keep away from idols. | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. |
I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. | I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. |
Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you then will truly be free. | Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed. |
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. | He who does not love does not know God, for 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 say well, 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. | You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. |
Everyone who sins breaks the law, for sin is lawlessness. | Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. |
If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. | If the world hates you, you know that it 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 sufficient for us.” |
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You place your trust in God. Trust also in me. | Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. |
Whoever feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I dwell in him. | He who eats 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. | And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. |
What then if you were to behold the Son of Man ascend to where he was before? | What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend 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.” | Jesus answered them and said, “My doctrine 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, than to lay down one’s 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 walk in 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. | My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. |