²² Therefore, say this to the house of Israel. This is what the Lord God says. I am about to act, O house of Israel, not for your sake, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you have gone. ²³ I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord God, when I reveal myself as holy in front of their eyes through you. ²⁴ I will take you from among the nations. I will gather you from all the lands, and I will bring you to your own soil. ²⁵ I will sprinkle purifying water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurity and from all your filthy idols.

The Lord Will Give His People a New Heart

²⁶ Then I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit inside you. I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ I will put my Spirit within you and will cause you to walk in my statutes, and you will carefully observe my ordinances. ²⁸ Then you will live in the land I gave your fathers. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

Love for Others in the End Times

⁷ The end of all things is near. So have sound judgment and be self-controlled for the sake of your prayers. ⁸ Above all, love each other constantly, because love covers a multitude of sins. ⁹ Be hospitable to one another without complaining.

Gifts Meant for Service

¹⁰ Serve one another, each according to the gift he has received, as good stewards of the many forms of God’s grace. ¹¹ If anyone speaks, let him do it as one speaking the messages of God. If anyone serves, let him do it as one serving with the strength God supplies so that God may be glorified in every way through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

²⁶ “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me. ²⁷ And you also are going to testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.”

No Greater Love—in Joy

16 “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. ² They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who murders you will think he is offering a service to God. ³ They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. ⁴ But I have told you these things so that when their^[a] time comes, you may remember that I told them to you. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.