The Lord said:

Behold, I stand at the door and knock;

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

I will come into him.

I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you.

Because I live, you will live also.

If a man loves me, he will keep my word,

And my Father will love him,

And we will come to him and make our home with him.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father,

And you in me, and I in you.

Abide in me, and I in you.

Apart from me you can do nothing.

If a man does not abide in me,

He is cast forth as a branch and withers.

His disciple said:

God is love,

And he who abides in love, abides in God,

And God in him.

All who keep his commandments abide in him,

And he in them.

Whoever keeps his word,

In him truly love for God is perfected.

By this we may be sure that we are in him.

He who says he abides in him

Ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

A devotee said:

God chose me to make known the glory of this mystery,

Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

I count all things as refuse,

That I may gain Christ and be found in him.

The life I now live in the flesh

I live by faith in the Lord who loved me

And gave himself for me.

He must increase,

But I must decrease.

It is no longer I who live,

But Christ who lives in me.

Christ is our life.

For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

We all, with unveiled face,

Beholding the glory of the Lord,

Are being changed into his likeness

From one degree of glory to another;

For this comes from the Lord,

Who is the Spirit.

The Lord said:

I am the vine, you are the branches.

He who abides in me, and I in him,

He it is that bears much fruit.

If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

He who believes in me,

Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.