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15 (A)If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another [a](B)Advocate, that He may be with you forever; 17 (C)the Spirit of truth, (D)whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; (E)I will come to you.

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  1. John 14:16 Gr parakletos, one called alongside as a helper

The Promise of the Helper

15 “If you love me, keep[a] my commandments. 16 I will ask the Father to give[b] you another Helper, to be with you always. 17 He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in[c] you. 18 I’m not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.

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Footnotes

  1. John 14:15 Other mss. read you will keep
  2. John 14:16 Lit. and he will give
  3. John 14:17 Or among