John 14:17
the Spirit of truth: which the world is not able to receive, because it does not see Him, nor know Him: you know Him: because He abideth with you, and shall be in you.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, that He may be with you always,
18I will not leave you orphans: I am coming to you.
Cross References
Matthew 10:20For you are not those speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking in you.
John 14:23Jesus responded and said to him; If any one may love me with divine love, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our mansion with him.
John 16:13But when He, the Spirit of truth, may come, He will guide you in all truth: for He will not speak from Himself; but so many things as He hears, He will speak: and will proclaim to you the things which are coming.
Romans 8:13For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.
Matthew Henry on John 14:16-18
Christ's Consolatory Discourse. 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 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. Christ not only proposes such things to them as were the matter of their comfort, but here promises to send the Spirit, whose office it should be to be their… Read the whole commentary →