John 16 (NET)

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John 16:1¹“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 2:8 Matt 13:21 Matt 26:31-33 John 15:18-27 Matt 24:10 John 16:4 Rom 14:21 Matt 11:6 Matt 13:57 John 15:11

John 16:2²They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 9:22 Acts 26:9-11 Rom 10:2-3 Acts 22:3-4 Matt 10:28 John 12:42 Rev 6:9 Acts 22:19-23 Isa 66:5 Luke 6:22

John 16:3³They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:21 John 17:25 2 Thess 1:8 2 Thess 2:10-12 John 8:19 John 8:55 1 John 3:1 John 17:3 1 Cor 2:8 1 John 4:8

John 16:4⁴But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. “I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:29 Mark 13:23 John 13:19 John 17:12-13 Matt 9:15 Acts 9:16 Matt 24:25 2 Pet 1:14 Isa 41:22-23 Mark 2:19

John 16:5⁵But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:36 John 7:33 John 16:28 Eph 4:7-11 Heb 1:3 John 14:4-6 John 16:10 John 17:4 Heb 12:2 John 13:3

John 16:6⁶Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:20-22 John 20:11-15 Luke 24:17 John 14:1 John 14:27-28 Luke 22:45

John 16:7⁷But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:26 John 14:16-17 John 15:26 Acts 2:33 John 7:39 Acts 1:4-5 Luke 24:49 Rom 8:28 Acts 10:34 Eph 4:8-13

John 16:8⁸And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 2:37 Jude 1:15 Zech 12:10 Acts 16:29-30 1 Cor 14:24 John 8:9 John 8:46

John 16:9⁹concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:22-25 John 12:47-48 John 8:23-24 Heb 3:12 Mark 16:16 Acts 2:22-38 John 8:42-47 Acts 3:14-19 John 3:18-21 Heb 10:28-29

John 16:10¹⁰concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:21 1 Pet 3:18 Rom 10:3-4 1 Cor 1:30 1 Tim 3:16 Acts 3:14 Jer 23:5-6 Phil 3:7-9 1 Cor 15:14-20 Heb 10:5-13

John 16:11¹¹and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 12:31 1 John 3:8 Col 2:15 Heb 2:14 John 14:30 2 Cor 4:4 Isa 49:24-26 Rev 12:7-10 Rev 20:10-15 1 Cor 4:5

John 16:12¹²“I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 4:33 John 15:15 1 Cor 3:1-2 Acts 1:3 Heb 5:11-14 John 14:30

John 16:13¹³But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:26 1 Cor 2:10-13 John 14:17 John 15:26 1 John 2:27 1 John 2:20 Acts 2:17-18 John 12:49 John 7:16-18 1 John 4:6

John 16:14¹⁴He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 4:13-14 2 Cor 3:14-18 John 15:26 Rev 19:10 1 Cor 12:3 1 Pet 1:10-12 1 Cor 2:8-10 1 John 3:23-4:3 2 Cor 4:6 Acts 2:32-36

John 16:15¹⁵Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 17:10 Matt 11:27 John 3:35 Luke 10:22 Col 1:19 Matt 28:18 John 10:29-30 John 13:3 Col 2:3 Col 2:9

John 16:16¹⁶In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:33 Acts 1:3 Acts 10:40-41 John 14:18-24 John 16:22 John 16:28 Heb 12:2 John 13:3 1 Cor 15:5-9 John 12:35

John 16:17¹⁷Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:16 John 16:5 Mark 9:32 John 14:5 John 16:19 John 12:16 Luke 18:34 Mark 9:10 John 14:22 John 16:1

John 16:18¹⁸So they kept on repeating, “What is the meaning of what he says, ‘In a little while’? We do not understand what he is talking about.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 24:25 Heb 5:12 Matt 16:9-11

John 16:19¹⁹Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, “Are you asking each other about this—that I said, ‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:19 John 16:16 John 16:30 John 13:33 John 2:24-25 John 7:33 Heb 4:13 John 21:17 Mark 9:33-34 Matt 6:8

John 16:20²⁰I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 1:2 Matt 5:4 Ps 126:5-6 Rev 7:14-17 Mark 16:10 1 Pet 1:6-8 2 Cor 6:10 Jer 31:25 Jude 1:24 Luke 24:21

John 16:21²¹When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 13:8 Ps 113:9 1 Thess 5:3 Jer 30:6-7 Hos 13:13-14 Isa 26:16-18 Mic 4:10 Rev 12:2-5 1 Sam 1:26-27 Gal 4:27

John 16:22²²So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:8 Acts 13:52 John 16:6 2 Thess 2:16 1 Pet 4:13-14 Acts 16:25 Isa 25:9 Ps 146:2 Acts 2:46 Hab 3:17-18

John 16:23²³At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 15:7 John 14:13-14 Matt 21:22 1 John 5:14-16 Isa 65:24 Matt 7:7 John 16:26 John 14:20 Eph 2:18 John 15:15-16

John 16:24²⁴Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 7:7-8 Jas 4:2-3 John 15:11 2 Thess 2:16-17 John 16:23 1 John 1:3-4 2 John 1:12 Eph 1:16-17 Matt 6:9 2 Thess 1:2

John 16:25²⁵“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:12 John 10:6 John 16:28-29 Mark 4:13 Matt 13:34-35 Matt 13:10-11 Ps 49:4 Ps 78:2 2 Cor 3:12-18 2 Cor 4:2

John 16:26²⁶At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 8:34 John 17:19 John 17:24 John 17:9 John 14:16 John 16:23

John 16:27²⁷For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:21 John 14:23 John 17:23 John 8:42 1 John 4:19 1 Cor 16:22 1 Pet 1:8 John 17:25-26 John 21:15-17 2 Cor 5:14

John 16:28²⁸I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:1 John 13:3 John 8:14 John 14:28 John 16:5 John 17:5 Acts 1:9-11 John 16:16 John 17:11 John 17:13

John 16:29²⁹His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 16:25

John 16:30³⁰Now we know that you know everything and do not need anyone to ask you anything. Because of this we believe that you have come from God.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 21:17 Heb 4:13 John 16:17 John 17:8 John 16:27-28 John 5:20

John 16:31³¹Jesus replied, “Do you now believe?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 13:38 Luke 9:44-45

John 16:32³²Look, a time is coming—and has come—when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zech 13:7 Matt 26:31 John 8:29 Mark 14:27 John 8:16 Matt 26:56 Isa 50:6-9 Mark 14:50 John 16:2 John 16:25

John 16:33³³I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage —I have conquered the world.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:27 1 John 5:4 2 Thess 3:16 1 John 4:4 Phil 4:7 John 14:1 1 Pet 5:9 2 Tim 3:12 Acts 14:22 John 15:18-21

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