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15"If you
love me, you will obey what I command.
16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor to be with you forever—
17the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him,
because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for
he lives with you and will be in you.
18I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.
19Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you
will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
20On that day you will realize that I am in my Father,
and you are in me, and I am in you.
21Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the
one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my
Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."
22Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why
do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"
23Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my
teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him
and make our home with him.
24He 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.
25"All this I have spoken while still with you.
26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father
will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind
you of everything I have said to you.
27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not
give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be
troubled and do not be afraid.
28"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming
back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going
to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
29I have told you now before it happens, so that when it
does happen you will believe.
30I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince
of this world is coming. He has no hold on me,
31but the world must learn that I love the Father and
that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come
now; let us leave.
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