John 14:21-23

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²¹Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(A) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(B) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

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

²³Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(E) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^(F)

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Isaiah 40:13-14

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¹³Who can fathom the Spirit^[a]^(A) of the Lord,
    or instruct the Lord as his counselor?^(B)
¹⁴Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,
    and who taught him the right way?
Who was it that taught him knowledge,^(C)
    or showed him the path of understanding?^(D)

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Isaiah 40:13 Or mind

John 17:23

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²³I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me^(A) and have loved them^(B) even as you have loved me.

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1 Corinthians 2:16

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¹⁶for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”^[a]^(A)

But we have the mind of Christ.^(B)

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1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13

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1 John 2:15

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On Not Loving the World

¹⁵Do not love the world or anything in the world.^(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father^[a] is not in them.^(B)

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1 John 2:15 Or world, the Father’s love

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1 John 3:1

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3 See what great love^(A) the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!^(B) And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.^(C)

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