John 16:1-15 ▼

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.

12 "I have much more to say to you, but you are unable at present to bear the burden of it.

13 But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

14 He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and will make it known to you.

15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said that the Spirit of Truth takes of what is mine and will make it known to you.