²⁰ and teaching^(A) them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you^(B) always, to the very end of the age.”^(C)

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

¹⁵ “If you love me, keep my commands.^(A)

² My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there^(A) to prepare a place for you?

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.^(A)

¹⁰ If you keep my commands,^(A) you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

³² We are witnesses of these things,^(A) and so is the Holy Spirit,^(B) whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Love and Hatred for Fellow Believers

³ We know^(A) that we have come to know him^(B) if we keep his commands.^(C)

²² and receive from him anything we ask,^(A) because we keep his commands^(B) and do what pleases him.^(C)

²⁴ The one who keeps God’s commands^(A) lives in him,^(B) and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.^(C)

³ In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.^(A) And his commands are not burdensome,^(B)