John 14:15-27

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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵“If you love me, keep my commands.^(A) ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate^(B) to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷the Spirit of truth.^(C) The world cannot accept him,^(D) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[a] in you. ¹⁸I will not leave you as orphans;^(E) I will come to you.^(F) ¹⁹Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(G) Because I live, you also will live.^(H) ²⁰On that day^(I) you will realize that I am in my Father,^(J) and you are in me, and I am in you.^(K) ²¹Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(L) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(M) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²²Then Judas^(N) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”^(O)

²³Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(P) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^(Q) ²⁴Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.^(R)

²⁵“All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶But the Advocate,^(S) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,^(T) will teach you all things^(U) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.^(V) ²⁷Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.^(W) I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled^(X) and do not be afraid.

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Footnotes

John 14:17 Some early manuscripts and is

Philippians 4:10-13

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Thanks for Their Gifts

¹⁰I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me.^(A) Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. ¹¹I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content^(B) whatever the circumstances. ¹²I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry,^(C) whether living in plenty or in want.^(D) ¹³I can do all this through him who gives me strength.^(E)

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Isaiah 40:21-31

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²¹Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(A)
Has it not been told^(B) you from the beginning?^(C)
    Have you not understood^(D) since the earth was founded?^(E)
²²He sits enthroned^(F) above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.^(G)
He stretches out the heavens^(H) like a canopy,^(I)
    and spreads them out like a tent^(J) to live in.^(K)
²³He brings princes^(L) to naught
    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.^(M)
²⁴No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(N) in the ground,
than he blows^(O) on them and they wither,^(P)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(Q)

²⁵“To whom will you compare me?^(R)
    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.^(S)
²⁶Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:^(T)
    Who created^(U) all these?
He who brings out the starry host^(V) one by one
    and calls forth each of them by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,^(W)
    not one of them is missing.^(X)

²⁷Why do you complain, Jacob?
    Why do you say, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord;
    my cause is disregarded by my God”?^(Y)
²⁸Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?^(Z)
The Lord is the everlasting^(AA) God,
    the Creator^(AB) of the ends of the earth.^(AC)
He will not grow tired or weary,^(AD)
    and his understanding no one can fathom.^(AE)
²⁹He gives strength^(AF) to the weary^(AG)
    and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men^(AH) stumble and fall;^(AI)
³¹but those who hope^(AJ) in the Lord
    will renew their strength.^(AK)
They will soar on wings like eagles;^(AL)
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.^(AM)