⁴ One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

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.

⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

²⁵ No man will be able to stand before you. Yahweh your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you tread on, as he has spoken to you. ²⁶ Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today; ²⁸ and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn away out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.

¹⁷ “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. ¹⁸ For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter^[a] or one tiny pen stroke^[b] shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished. ¹⁹ Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

¹³ Then little children were brought to him that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴ But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.” ¹⁵ He laid his hands on them, and departed from there.

¹⁶ Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

¹⁷ He said to him, “Why do you call me good?^[a] No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

⁷ If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

⁶ “For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.