If you love me, obey my commandments. | If you love me, you will keep my commandments. |
We love each other because he loved us first. | We love because he first loved us. |
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He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. | He must increase, but I must decrease. |
No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you. | I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. |
Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts. | Little children, keep yourselves from idols. |
So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free. | So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. |
But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. | Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. |
If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. | If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. |
You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that’s what I am. | You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. |
Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” | Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” |
This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. | This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. |
You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. | You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. |
Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. | Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. |
Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. | Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. |
Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. | Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. |
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. |
Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again? | Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? |
So Jesus told them, “My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.” | Then Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine but his who sent me.” |
Everyone who sins is breaking God’s law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. | Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. |
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. |
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. | No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
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 that my children are walking in the truth. |
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. |
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.” | Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.” |
Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. | What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. |