Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands.^{(A) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate^(B) to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth.^(C) The world cannot accept him,^(D) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[a] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans;^(E) I will come to you.^{(F) 19} Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(G) Because I live, you also will live.^{(H) 20} On that day^(I) you will realize that I am in my Father,^(J) and you are in me, and I am in you.^{(K) 21} Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(L) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(M) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶ “When the Advocate^(A) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^(B)—the Spirit of truth^(C) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^{(D) 27} And you also must testify,^(E) for you have been with me from the beginning.^(F)

16 “All this^(G) I have told you so that you will not fall away.^{(H) 2} They will put you out of the synagogue;^(I) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.^{(J) 3} They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.^{(K) 4} I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember^(L) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,^{(M) 5} but now I am going to him who sent me.^(N) None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{(O) 6} Rather, you are filled with grief^(P) because I have said these things. ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate^(Q) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.^(R)