⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(A)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As ^(B)the living Father ^(C)sent me, and ^(D)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(A)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will ^(B)know the truth, and the truth ^(C)will set you free.”

^9 (A)As the Father has loved me, ^(B)so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ^10 (C)If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as ^(D)I have kept ^(E)my Father's commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹ These things I have spoken to you, ^(F)that my joy may be in you, and that ^(G)your joy may be full.

^12 (H)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ^13 (I)Greater love has no one than this, ^(J)that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are ^(K)my friends ^(L)if you do what I command you. ^15 (M)No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant ^(N)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(O)all that I have heard from my Father ^(P)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(Q)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(R)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(S)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

¹⁷ And ^(A)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

²⁴ Let ^(A)what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then ^(B)you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.

^24 (A)Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,^[a] and God^[b] in him. And ^(B)by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.

¹⁶ So ^(A)we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. ^(B)God is love, and ^(C)whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.