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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>John 16 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > John 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/15.htm" title="John 15">◄</a> John 16 <a href="../john/17.htm" title="John 17">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/john/16.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="red">“I have told you this to keep you from falling away.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:1 Or from stumbling">a</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They’ll do this because they haven’t known the Father or me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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.”</span></p> <p class="heading">The Work of the Spirit</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">“But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But because I have told you this, sorrow has filled your hearts. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When he comes, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>of sin, because they don’t believe in me; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>of righteousness, because I’m going to the Father and you will no longer see me; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and of judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:11 Or condemned">b</a></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">“I still have a lot to say to you, but you cannot bear it now. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he’ll guide you into all truth. He won’t speak on his own accord, but he’ll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All that the Father has is mine. That is why I said, ‘He will take what is mine and declare it to you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, “What does he mean by telling us, <span class="red">‘In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They kept saying, “What is this ‘in a little while’ that he keeps talking about? We don’t know what he means.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Sorrow will Turn to Joy</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, <span class="red">“Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again’? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Truly, I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:20 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">c</a></span> emphatically, you’ll cry and mourn, but the world will rejoice. You’ll be deeply distressed, but your pain will turn into joy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn’t remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now you are having pain. But I’ll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>On that day, you won’t ask me for anything. Truly, I tell all of you<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:23 The Gk. pronoun you is pl.">d</a></span> emphatically, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, he will give it to you.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:23 Other mss. read ask the Father for, he will give it to you in my name">e</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So far you haven’t asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.”</span></p> <p class="heading">Victory over the World</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">“I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>At that time, you will make your requests in my name, so that I will have no need to ask the Father on your behalf, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:27 Other mss. read from the Father">f</a></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I left the Father and came into the world. Now<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:28 Lit. Again">g</a></span> I’m leaving the world and going back to the Father.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Jesus’<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="16:29 Lit. His">h</a></span> disciples said, “Well, now you’re speaking plainly and not using figurative language. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now we know that you know everything and don’t need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Jesus answered them, <span class="red">“Do you now believe? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I’m not alone, because the Father is with me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you’ll have trouble, but be courageous—I’ve overcome the world!”</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 16:1 Or <i>from stumbling</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 16:11 Or <i>condemned</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 16:20 The Gk. pronoun <i>you</i> is pl.<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 16:23 The Gk. pronoun <i>you</i> is pl.<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 16:23 Other mss. read <i>ask the Father for, he will give it to you in my name</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 16:27 Other mss. read <i>from the Father</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 16:28 Lit. <i>Again</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 16:29 Lit. <i>His</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/john/16-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table><br /><br /><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>