John 16:1-13 ▼

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

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

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

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

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

6 |But because I have said these things to you, sorrow 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 Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

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

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

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

11 and 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, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide 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.