¹² “^(A)And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to ^[a]fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and ^(B)love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with ^(C)all your heart and with all your soul, ¹³ and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

Choose Life

¹⁵ “See, ^(A)I have placed before you today life and ^[a]happiness, and death and ^[b]adversity, ¹⁶ in that I am commanding you today ^(B)to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, so that you ^(C)may live and become numerous, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to take possession of it. ¹⁷ But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them, ¹⁸ I declare to you today that ^(D)you will certainly perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter ^[c]and take possession of it. ^19 (E)I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have placed before you life and death, ^(F)the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your ^[d]descendants, ^20 (G)by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and ^(H)by holding close to Him; ^(I)for ^[e]this is your life and the length of your days, ^[f]so that you may live in ^(J)the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

¹⁵ “^(A)If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

The Holy Spirit

¹⁶ I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ^[a](B)Helper, so that He may be with you forever; ¹⁷ the Helper is ^(C)the Spirit of truth, ^(D)whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(E)I am coming to you. ^19 [b](F)After a little while, ^(G)the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; ^(H)because I live, you also will live. ^20 (I)On that day you will know that ^(J)I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you. ^21 (K)The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^(L)the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^(M)reveal Myself to him.” ^22 (N)Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what has happened ^(O)that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “^(P)If anyone loves Me, he will ^(Q)follow My word; and ^(R)My Father will love him, and We ^(S)will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ²⁴ The one who does not love Me ^(T)does not follow My words; and ^(U)the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you. ²⁶ But the ^(V)Helper, the Holy Spirit ^(W)whom the Father will send in My name, ^(X)He will teach you all things, and ^(Y)remind you of all that I said to you. ^27 (Z)Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. ^[c](AA)Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor ^[d]fearful. ^28 (AB)You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away, and ^(AC)I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced ^[e]because ^(AD)I am going to the Father, for ^(AE)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now ^(AF)I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰ I will not speak much more with you, for ^(AG)the ruler of the world is coming, and he has ^[f]nothing in regard to Me, ³¹ but so that the world may know that I love the Father, ^[g]I do exactly as ^(AH)the Father commanded Me. Get up, ^(AI)let’s go from here.

Overcoming the World

5 ^(A)Everyone who believes that Jesus is the ^[a]Christ has been ^(B)born of God, and everyone who loves the ^[b]Father ^(C)loves the child born of Him. ^2 (D)By this we know that ^(E)we love the children of God, when we love God and ^[c]follow His commandments. ³ For ^(F)this is the love of God, that we ^(G)keep His commandments; and ^(H)His commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ For ^[d]whoever has been ^(I)born of God ^(J)overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.

⁵ Who is the one who overcomes the world, but the one who ^(K)believes that Jesus is the Son of God?