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)

³ All of us also lived among them at one time,^(A) gratifying the cravings of our flesh^[a](B) and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. ⁴ But because of his great love for us,^(C) God, who is rich in mercy, ⁵ made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions^(D)—it is by grace you have been saved.^{(E) 6} And God raised us up with Christ^(F) and seated us with him^(G) in the heavenly realms^(H) in Christ Jesus, ⁷ in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,^(I) expressed in his kindness^(J) to us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For it is by grace^(K) you have been saved,^(L) through faith^(M)—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— ⁹ not by works,^(N) so that no one can boast.^(O)