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John 14:20-31 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

20. Then you will know that I am one with the Father. You will know that you are one with me, and I am one with you.

21. If you love me, you will do what I have said, and my Father will love you. I will also love you and show you what I am like.

22. The other Judas, not Judas Iscariot, then spoke up and asked, “Lord, what do you mean by saying that you will show us what you are like, but you will not show the people of this world?”

23. Jesus replied:If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them.

24. But anyone who doesn't love me, won't obey me. What they have heard me say doesn't really come from me, but from the Father who sent me.

25. I have told you these things while I am still with you.

26. But the Holy Spirit will come and help you, because the Father will send the Spirit to take my place. The Spirit will teach you everything and will remind you of what I said while I was with you.

27. I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn't like the peace that this world can give. So don't be worried or afraid.

28. You have already heard me say that I am going and that I will also come back to you. If you really love me, you should be glad that I am going back to the Father, because he is greater than I am.

29. I am telling you this before I leave, so that when it does happen, you will have faith in me.

30. I cannot speak with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. But he has no power over me.

31. I obey my Father, so that everyone in the world might know that I love him.It is time for us to go now.

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