No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

The Father and I are one.”

And you know the way where I am going.”

“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”

“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

Then you will say, “The branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.”

I encourage you, then, be imitators of me.

Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.

But if we examined ourselves, we would not be judged.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part,

Why too are we in danger every hour?

For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also behave in accordance with the Spirit.

I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.