Jesus Promises Another Helper

^15 (A)“If you love Me, ^[a]keep My commandments.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, ^(A)and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and ^(B)the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

⁹ And ^(A)having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,

The Test of Knowing Him

³ Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

⁸ But what does it say? ^(A)“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):