Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, John by R F Weymouth
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014:016 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate
to be for ever with you--the Spirit of truth. 014:017 That Spirit the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. You know Him, because He remains by your side and is in you. 014:018 I will not leave you bereaved: I am coming to you. 014:019 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me: because I live, you also shall live. 014:020 At that time you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me, and that I am in you. 014:021 He who has my commandments and obeys them--he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will clearly reveal myself to him." 014:022 Judas (not the Iscariot) asked, "Master, how is it that you will reveal yourself clearly to us and not to the world?" 014:023 "If any one loves me," replied Jesus, "he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 014:024 He who has no love for me does not obey my teaching; and yet the teaching to which you are listening is not mine, but is the teaching of the Father who sent me. 014:025 "All this I have spoken to you while still with you. 014:026 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send at my request, will teach you everything, and will bring to your memories all that I have said to you. 014:027 Peace I leave with you: my own peace I give to you. It is not as the world gives its greetings that I give you peace. Let not your hearts be troubled or dismayed. 014:028 "You heard me say to you, `I am going away, and yet I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I |
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