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15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, [a] that he may be with you forever: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

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  1. 14:16 Greek παρακλητον: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comforter.

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, you will keep[a] my commandments.(A) 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate,[b] to be with you forever.(B) 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be[c] in[d] you.(C)

18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 14.15 Other ancient authorities read me, keep
  2. 14.16 Or Helper or Comforter
  3. 14.17 Other ancient authorities read he is
  4. 14.17 Or among