¹¹ I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!

¹³ I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹³ “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy.

²⁴ You haven’t done this before. Ask, using my name, and you will receive, and you will have abundant joy.

⁴ We are writing these things so that you may fully share our joy.^[a]

⁸ You love him even though you have never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice with a glorious, inexpressible joy.

Conclusion

¹² I have much more to say to you, but I don’t want to do it with paper and ink. For I hope to visit you soon and talk with you face to face. Then our joy will be complete.

³³ I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

²⁴ But that does not mean we want to dominate you by telling you how to put your faith into practice. We want to work together with you so you will be full of joy, for it is by your own faith that you stand firm.

³² We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life! He was lost, but now he is found!’”