John 16:1-7 ▼

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.