10 (A)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as (B)I have kept (C)my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

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10 If you keep my commands,(A) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 (A)“If you love me, you will (B)keep my commandments.

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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, keep my commands.(A)

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For (A)this is the love of God, that we (B)keep his commandments. And (C)his commandments are not burdensome.

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In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.(A) And his commands are not burdensome,(B)

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21 Beloved, (A)if our heart does not condemn us, (B)we have confidence before God; 22 and (C)whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and (D)do what pleases him. 23 And this is his commandment, (E)that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and (F)love one another, (G)just as he has commanded us. 24 (H)Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,[a] and God[b] in him. And (I)by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

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  1. 1 John 3:24 Greek him
  2. 1 John 3:24 Greek he

21 Dear friends,(A) if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God(B) 22 and receive from him anything we ask,(C) because we keep his commands(D) and do what pleases him.(E) 23 And this is his command: to believe(F) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,(G) and to love one another as he commanded us.(H) 24 The one who keeps God’s commands(I) lives in him,(J) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.(K)

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but whoever (A)keeps his word, in him truly (B)the love of God is perfected. (C)By this we may know that we are in him:

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But if anyone obeys his word,(A) love for God[a] is truly made complete in them.(B) This is how we know(C) we are in him:

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  1. 1 John 2:5 Or word, God’s love

Christ Our Advocate

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, (A)we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. (B)He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but (C)also for the sins of the whole world.

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My dear children,(A) I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate(B) with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,(C) and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.(D)

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29 And (A)he who sent me is with me. (B)He has not left me alone, for (C)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

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29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone,(A) for I always do what pleases him.”(B)

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34 Jesus said to them, (A)“My food is (B)to do the will of him who sent me and (C)to accomplish his work.

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34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will(A) of him who sent me and to finish his work.(B)

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21 For (A)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from (B)the holy commandment delivered to them.

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21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.(A)

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A Life Pleasing to God

Finally, then, brothers,[a] we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you (A)received from us (B)how you ought to walk and (C)to please God, just as you are doing, that you (D)do so more and more.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Or brothers and sisters; also verses 10, 13

Living to Please God

As for other matters, brothers and sisters,(A) we instructed you how to live(B) in order to please God,(C) as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

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14 Blessed are those who (A)wash their robes,[a] so that they may have the right to (B)the tree of life and that (C)they may enter the city by the gates.

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  1. Revelation 22:14 Some manuscripts do his commandments

14 “Blessed are those who wash their robes,(A) that they may have the right to the tree of life(B) and may go through the gates(C) into the city.(D)

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I (A)glorified you on earth, (B)having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

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I have brought you glory(A) on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.(B)

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31 but I do (A)as the Father has commanded me, (B)so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

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31 but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.(A)

“Come now; let us leave.

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