Add parallel Print Page Options

24 So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father.

Read full chapter

24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning(A) remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.(B)

Read full chapter

23 Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

“I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

Read full chapter

“As the Father has loved me,(A) so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands,(B) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

Read full chapter

I am writing to remind you, dear friends,[a] that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning. Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 5 Greek I urge you, lady.

And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.(A) I ask that we love one another. And this is love:(B) that we walk in obedience to his commands.(C) As you have heard from the beginning,(D) his command is that you walk in love.

Read full chapter

16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.

God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

Read full chapter

16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(A) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(B)

Read full chapter

13 And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.

Read full chapter

13 This is how we know(A) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.(B)

Read full chapter

Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief.

Read full chapter

Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent.(A) But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief,(B) and you will not know at what time(C) I will come to you.

Read full chapter

A New Commandment

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before.

Read full chapter

Dear friends,(A) I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.(B) This old command is the message you have heard.

Read full chapter

We proclaim to you what we ourselves have actually seen and heard so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

Read full chapter

We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard,(A) so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.(B)

Read full chapter

But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!

Read full chapter

If you remain in me(A) and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.(B)

Read full chapter

11 I am coming soon.[a] Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 3:11 Or suddenly, or quickly.

11 I am coming soon.(A) Hold on to what you have,(B) so that no one will take your crown.(C)

Read full chapter

16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

Read full chapter

16 Let the message of Christ(A) dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom(B) through psalms,(C) hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.(D)

Read full chapter

21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. 24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

Read full chapter

21 that all of them may be one,(A) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.(B) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(C) 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me,(D) that they may be one as we are one(E) 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me(F) and have loved them(G) even as you have loved me.

24 “Father, I want those you have given me(H) to be with me where I am,(I) and to see my glory,(J) the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.(K)

Read full chapter