John 16:1-11 ▼

1 "These things I have spoken to you in order to clear stumbling-blocks out of your path.

2 You will be excluded from the synagogues; nay more, the time is coming when any one who has murdered one of you will suppose he is offering service to God.

3 And they will do these things because they have failed to recognize the Father and to discover who I am.

4 But I have spoken these things to you in order that when the time for their accomplishment comes you may remember them, and may recollect that I told you. I did not, however, tell you all this at first, because I was still with you.

5 But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.

6 But grief has filled your hearts because I have said all this to you.

7 "Yet it is the truth that I am telling you--it is to your advantage that I go away. For unless I go away, the Advocate 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 in respect of sin, of righteousness, and of judgement; --

9 of sin, because they do not believe in me;

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

11 of judgement, because the Prince of this world is under sentence.