⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:^(A)

A Living Sacrifice

12 Therefore, I urge you,^(A) brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,^(B) holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform^(C) to the pattern of this world,^(D) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.^(E) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is^(F)—his good, pleasing^(G) and perfect will.

¹⁶ And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate^(A) to help you and be with you forever— ¹⁷ the Spirit of truth.^(B) The world cannot accept him,^(C) because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be^[a] in you. ¹⁸ I will not leave you as orphans;^(D) I will come to you.^{(E) 19} Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(F) Because I live, you also will live.^{(G) 20} On that day^(H) you will realize that I am in my Father,^(I) and you are in me, and I am in you.^{(J) 21} Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.^(K) The one who loves me will be loved by my Father,^(L) and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

²² Then Judas^(M) (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?”^(N)

²³ Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.^(O) My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.^{(P) 24} Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.^(Q)

²⁵ “All this I have spoken while still with you. ²⁶ But the Advocate,^(R) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,^(S) will teach you all things^(T) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.^(U)

¹⁵ Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.^(A)

⁵ he saved us,^(A) not because of righteous things we had done,^(B) but because of his mercy.^(C) He saved us through the washing^(D) of rebirth and renewal^(E) by the Holy Spirit, ⁶ whom he poured out on us^(F) generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that, having been justified by his grace,^(G) we might become heirs^(H) having the hope^(I) of eternal life.^(J)