It is he who has my commands and lays them to heart that loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

If you remain united to me, and my teaching remains in your hearts, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be yours.

Dwelleth

Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.

He who takes my flesh for his food, and drinks my blood, has Immortal Life; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

That they all may be one--that as thou, Father, art in union with us--and so the world may believe that thou hast sent me as thy Messenger.

Do not you know that you are God's Temple, and that God's Spirit has his home in you?

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

What agreement can thee be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the Living God. That is what God meant when he said--'I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Guard by the help of the Holy Spirit, who is within us, the glorious trust that has been committed to you.

We

We know that we remain in union with him, and he with us, by this--by his having given us some measure of his Spirit.

You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ;

To ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons.

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But Jesus replied: "Rather, happy are those who listen to God's Message and keep it."

We know that we remain in union with him, and he with us, by this--by his having given us some measure of his Spirit.

By this we know that we love God's Children--when we love God and carry out his commands.