^21 (A)He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and ^[a]manifest Myself to him.”

Jesus Promises Another Helper

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

^3 (A)For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And ^(B)His commandments are not burdensome.

⁵ But ^(A)whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God ^[a]is perfected ^(B)in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

^6 (A)This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, that ^(B)as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.

Love and Joy Perfected

⁹ “As the Father ^(A)loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ^10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹³ ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly ^[a]obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,

^27 (A)for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and ^(B)have believed that I came forth from God.

²⁸ But He said, ^(A)“More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

^25 (A)Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you ^(B)from all your filthiness and from all your idols. ²⁶ I will give you a ^(C)new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ I will put My ^(D)Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.