John 16:1-10

The Work of the Holy Spirit

1 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away.
2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.
3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,
5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things.
7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:
9 about sin, because people do not believe in me;
10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer;

Cross References 15

  • 1. John 15:18-27
  • 2. Matthew 11:6
  • 3. John 9:22; John 12:42
  • 4. Isaiah 66:5; Acts 26:9,10; Revelation 6:9
  • 5. John 15:21; John 17:25; 1 John 3:1
  • 6. John 13:19; John 14:29
  • 7. John 15:27
  • 8. ver 10,17,28; John 7:33
  • 9. John 13:36; John 14:5
  • 10. ver 22
  • 11. John 14:16,26; John 15:26
  • 12. John 7:39; John 14:26
  • 13. John 15:22
  • 14. Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52; Romans 1:17; Romans 3:21,22; 1 Peter 3:18
  • 15. S ver 5
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