John 14:15-17

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 b "If you love me, you will c keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another d Helper, 1 to be with you forever, 17 even e the Spirit of truth, f whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and g will be in you.

  1. Cross References
    John 14:21
    Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.
    John 14:23
    Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
    John 15:10
    If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
    1 John 5:3
    For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.
    2 John 1:6
    And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.
  2. Cross References
    1 John 2:3
    And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.
  3. Cross References
    John 14:26
    But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
    John 15:26
    But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
    John 16:7
    Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
  4. Cross References
    John 15:26
    But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to ...
    John 16:13
    When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide y...
    1 Corinthians 2:12 - 14
    Now we have received not the spirit of the worl...
    1 John 2:27
    But the anointing that you received from him ab...
    1 John 4:6
    We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to u...
    1 John 5:7
    For there are three that testify:
  5. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 2:14
    The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
  6. Cross References
    Acts 2:4
    And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
    1 John 2:27
    But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie - just as it has taught you, abide in him.
    2 John 1:2
    Because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:
    Romans 8:9
    You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
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