John 16:1-11 ▼

1 |I have told you this to keep you from falling away.

2 You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.

3 They'll do this because they haven't known the Father or me.

4 But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you.|

5 |But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

6 But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts.

7 However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

8 When he comes, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment—

9 of sin, because they don't believe in me;

10 of righteousness, because I'm going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

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