JMNT(i)
38 "and further, you people are not holding His Word (His Message; His communication of His Thought and Idea; His Logos)
remaining (or: dwelling)
continuously within you (or: and you are not having His Word and Idea abiding continually among you folks),
because Whom He sends (or: sent)
forth with a commission (or: as a Representative)
you people are not trusting or believing.”
39 "You folks continuously search (or, as an imperative: Be constantly searching)
the Scriptures, because within them you yourselves are habitually presuming to be presently and continuously holding eonian life (or: because you folks are normally supposing for yourselves to be habitually having – in union with them – life pertaining to, and having the qualities and characteristics of, the Age [perhaps: = the life of the coming age]),
and those [
Scriptures]
are (exist being)
the ones continuously testifying about Me (constantly giving evidence concerning and bearing witness around Me).
40 "And yet you people continue not willing (or: presently refuse and habitually do not intend)
to come toward (or: to; face to face with)
Me, so that you may presently be having Life (or: would continuously hold and possess [this] life).