If you love me, keep my commandments. | If you love me, you will keep my commandments. |
He must increase, but I must decrease. | He must increase; I must decrease. |
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We love him, because he first loved us. | Therefore, we love because he first loved us. |
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. | Dear children, keep away from idols. |
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you. | I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. |
If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. | Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you then will truly be free. |
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. | Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. |
You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. | You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. |
If the world hates you, 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. |
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. | Beloved, since God loved us so much, we should love one another. |
Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” | Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, it will be enough for us.” |
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. | This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. |
Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. | Do not let your hearts be troubled. You place your trust in God. Trust also in me. |
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. | Everyone who sins breaks the law, for sin is lawlessness. |
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. | You have already been cleansed by the word I have spoken to you. |
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. | Whoever feeds upon my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I dwell in him. |
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it. | The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has been unable to overcome it. |
Then what if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? | What then if you were to behold the Son of Man ascend to where he was before? |
Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.” | Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not my own; rather, it comes from him who sent me.” |
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. |
I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth. | Nothing gives me greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
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. |
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. | No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. |
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. 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. |
All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. | Through him all things came into existence, and without him there was nothing. That which came to be. |