John 14:17

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“the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.”

— WEB

“Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

— KJV

“[even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.”

— ASV

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Ezekiel 36:27 "I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them."
John 16:13 "However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hea…"
John 15:26 "“When the CounselorGreek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comforter. has come, whom I will send to you from the …"
1 John 2:27 "As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing te…"
1 John 4:6 "We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the sp…"
1 Corinthians 2:14 "Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are…"
1 Corinthians 3:16 "Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?"
2 Timothy 1:14 "That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us."

Commentary

whom the world cannot receive, &c.--(See Co1 2:14). he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you--Though the proper fulness of both these was yet future, our Lord, by using both the present and the future, seems plainly to say that they already had the germ of this great blessing.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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