Another Counselor Promised

¹⁵ “If you love me, you will keep^[a] my commands.^{(A) 16} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor^[b](B) to be with you forever. ¹⁷ He is the Spirit^(C) of truth.^(D) The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be^[c] in you.^(E)

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. ¹⁹ In a little while the world will no longer see me,^(F) but you will see me.^(G) Because I live, you will live^(H) too. ²⁰ On that day you will know that I am in my Father,^(I) you are in me, and I am in you. ²¹ The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(J) And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father.^(K) I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

The Counselor’s Ministry

²⁶ “When the Counselor^(A) comes, the one I will send to you from the Father^(B) —the Spirit of truth^(C) who proceeds from the Father—he will testify about me.

¹³ When the Spirit of truth^(A) comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^(B) For he will not speak on his own, but he will speak whatever he hears. He will also declare to you what is to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. ¹⁵ Everything the Father^(C) has is mine.^(D) This is why I told you that he takes from what is mine and will declare it to you.^(E)

⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”^(A)