John 16:1-15

Jesus' Warning

1 "¹These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from ²stumbling.

2 "They will ³make you outcasts from the synagogue, but ⁴an hour is coming for everyone ⁵who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

3 "These things they will do ⁶because they have not known the Father or Me.

4 "But these things I have spoken to you, ⁷so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you of them. These things I did not say to you ⁸at the beginning, because I was with you.

The Holy Spirit Promised

5 "But now ⁹I am going to Him who sent Me; and none of you asks Me, '¹⁰Where are You going?'

6 "But because I have said these things to you, ¹¹sorrow has filled your heart.

7 "But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the ¹²Helper will not come to you; but if I go, ¹³I will send Him to you.

8 "And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment;

9 concerning sin, ¹⁴because they do not believe in Me;

10 and concerning ¹⁵righteousness, because ¹⁶I go to the Father and you no longer see Me;

11 ¹⁷and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

12 "I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot * bear them now.

13 "But when He, ¹⁸the Spirit of truth, comes, He will ¹⁹guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

14 "He will ²⁰glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.

15 "²¹All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore * I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

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Cross References 21

1. John 15:18-27
2. Matthew 11:6
3. John 9:22
4. John 4:21; John 16:25
5. Isaiah 66:5; Acts 26:9-11; Revelation 6:9
6. John 8:19, 55; John 15:21; John 17:25; Acts 3:17; 1 John 3:1
7. John 13:19
8. Luke 1:2
9. John 7:33; John 16:10, 17, 28
10. John 13:36; John 14:5
11. John 14:1; John 16:22
12. John 14:16
13. John 14:26
14. John 15:22, 24
15. Acts 3:14; Acts 7:52; Acts 17:31; 1 Peter 3:18
16. John 16:5
17. John 12:31
18. John 14:17
19. John 14:26
20. John 7:39
21. John 17:10

Footnotes 3

[a]. Or "They will have you excommunicated"
[b]. Or "will remember them, that I told you"
[c]. Gr "Paracletos", one called alongside to help; or "Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor"