for the words which you have given me I have given to them. They received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
No longer do I call y’all servants, for the servant doesn’t know what their lord does. But I have called y’all friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to y’all.
And we also thank God constantly because when y’all received the word of God from us, y’all accepted it not as a human word, but as it is in truth, God’s word, which also works in y’all who believe.
Jesus said to them, “If God were y’all’s Father, y’all would love me, for I proceeded from God and am now present. I haven’t come on my own initiative, but ʜᴇ sent me.
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words I say to y’all, I don’t speak from myself. It is the Father who lives in me, doing ʜɪꜱ works.
Additionally then, siblings, we ask and urge y’all in the Lord Jesus, that as y’all received instruction from us on how you* should live to please God—as y’all are doing—do it all the more.
I will raise them up a prophet from among their people, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them everything that I command him.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must happen soon. Hᴇ made it known by sending his angel to his slave John,