14:24a

Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words: This clause indicates that people who do not love Jesus will not want to obey him. This is the opposite of 14:23. You may want to make the implied contrast explicit. For example:

But anyone who doesn’t love me, won’t obey me. (Contemporary English Version)
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But the person who does not love me, he also does not follow/obey my teachings. (Yakan Back Translation)

Whoever does not love Me: This clause explains the phrase “the world” that was used in 14:19 and 14:22. That phrase refers to those who do not believe in Jesus or love him. It does not refer to everyone in the world.

Whoever: This word is indefinite and refers to anyone. For example:

The person who does not love me
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Those who do not love me (Good News Translation)
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Anyone who doesn’t love me (New Living Translation (2004))

14:24b

The word that you hear is not My own: This clause indicates that the things Jesus said did not come from him alone. He was not the source. He was not speaking based on his own authority or decision. See the notes on 12:49–50. Here are other ways to translate this clause:

These words you hear are not my own (New International Version)
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I don’t make up what you hear me say. (God’s Word)

The word that you hear: This phrase refers to what Jesus had said to the disciples, his message. For example:

What they have heard me say (Contemporary English Version)
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This teaching that you hear (New Century Version)

is not My own: The phrase not My own indicates that Jesus’ teaching was not just his own idea. He did agree with it, but he did not create it by himself. He taught it, but it was not his own idea. Here are other ways to translate this phrase:

is not my own (New Jerusalem Bible)
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is not really mine (New Century Version)
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doesn’t really come from me (Contemporary English Version)

14:24c

but: The Greek conjunction that the Berean Standard Bible translates as but here connects a negative statement (14:24b) to a positive statement (14:24c). This kind of sentence emphasizes the positive statement. Languages have different ways to indicate this type of emphasis. Here are some ways to show the emphasis:

• Use the conjunction but as in the Berean Standard Bible.

What they have heard me say doesn’t really come from me, but from the Father who sent me. (Contemporary English Version)

• Use a conjunction other than but. This is a common way in English to show this type of emphasis. For example:

My teaching is not mine; rather/instead it comes from my Father who sent me.

• Do not use a conjunction. For example:

And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. (New Living Translation (2004))

• Change the order of the clauses. For example:

My teaching is from him who sent me. It is not mine.

You should translate this emphasis in the way that is most natural in your language. See how you translated a very similar sentence in 7:16.

it is from the Father who sent Me: This expression indicates that Jesus’ teaching came originally from God the Father. For example:

is the word of the Father who sent me (New Jerusalem Bible)
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the Father’s who sent me (NET Bible)
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comes from the Father, who sent me (Good News Translation)

In some languages it may be natural to begin a new clause, repeating the subject (“the word that you hear”). For example (the subject is underlined):

What I say comes from the Father who sent me. (God’s Word)
-or-

What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. (New Living Translation (2004))

from the Father who sent Me: This clause refers to God the Father. In your translation, be sure not to imply that there are two or more fathers, one of whom sent Jesus. There is one Father, and he sent Jesus. For example:

my Father sent me and told me to speak this message

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