Another Counselor Promised

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep^[a] my commands.^{(A) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor^[b](B) to be with you forever. ¹⁷ He is the Spirit^(C) of truth.^(D) The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be^[c] in you.^(E)

²⁹ Since, then, we are God’s offspring, we shouldn’t think that the divine nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image fashioned by human art and imagination.^(A)

¹⁸ For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life^(A) inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,^(B)

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ,^(A) like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.^(B)

⁸ Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition,^(A) based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.^(B)