Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 ^q“If you ^rlove me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will ^sgive you another ^tHelper,¹ to be with you forever, 17 even the ^uSpirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be² in you.

18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 ^vYet a little while and ^wthe world will see me no more, but you will see me. ^xBecause I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and ^yyou in me, and ^zI in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And ^ahe who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will ^bkeep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our ^chome with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

25 “These things I have spoken to you ^dwhile I am still with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, ^ehe will teach you all things and bring to your ^fremembrance all that I have said to you. 27 ^gPeace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^hLet not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God ^pdwells in you. Anyone who does not have the ^qSpirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is ^rin you, although the ^sbody is dead because of sin, the Spirit is ^tlife because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of ^uhim who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus¹ from the dead will also ^vgive life to your mortal bodies ^wthrough his Spirit who dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ

12 So then, brothers,² we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For ^xif you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you ^yput to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are ^zled by the Spirit of God are sons³ of God. 15 For you did ^anot receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of ^badoption as sons, by whom we cry, ^c“Abba! Father!” 16 ^dThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then ^eheirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ^fprovided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

16 But I say, ^twalk by the Spirit, and you will ^unot gratify the ^vdesires of the flesh. 17 For ^wthe desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, ^xto keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are ^yled by the ^zSpirit, you are ^anot under the law. 19 Now ^bthe works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,¹ drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that ^cthose who do² such things ^dwill not ^einherit the kingdom of God. 22 But ^fthe fruit of the Spirit is ^glove, ^hjoy, ⁱpeace, ^jpatience, ^kkindness, ^lgoodness, ^mfaithfulness, 23 ⁿgentleness, ^oself-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And ^pthose who ^qbelong to Christ Jesus have ^rcrucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.