John 16:1-11 ▼

1 'These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

2 out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

3 and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

4 But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said them to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

5 and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

6 but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

7 'But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

8 and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

9 concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;

10 and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

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