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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>John 16 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</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">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_1"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.1" class="v43_16_1">1</span>I am telling you these things, so that you will not turn away. </span><span class="v43_16_2"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.2" class="v43_16_2">2</span>You will be chased out of the synagogues. And the time will come when people will kill you and think they are doing God a favor. </span><span class="v43_16_3"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.3" class="v43_16_3">3</span>They will do these things because they don't know either the Father or me. </span><span class="v43_16_4"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.4" class="v43_16_4">4</span>I am saying this to you now, so that when the time comes, you will remember what I have said.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The Work of the Holy Spirit</h3><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_4">I was with you at the first, and so I didn't tell you these things. </span><span class="v43_16_5"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.5" class="v43_16_5">5</span>But now I am going back to the Father who sent me, and none of you asks me where I am going. </span><span class="v43_16_6"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.6" class="v43_16_6">6</span>You are very sad from hearing all of this. </span><span class="v43_16_7"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.7" class="v43_16_7">7</span>But I tell you I am going to do what is best for you. This is why I am going away. The Holy Spirit cannot come to help<a href="#fn" id="link_John.16.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> you until I leave. But after I am gone, I will send the Spirit to you.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_8"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.8" class="v43_16_8">8</span>The Spirit will come and show the people of this world the truth about sin and God's justice and the judgment. </span><span class="v43_16_9"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.9" class="v43_16_9">9</span>The Spirit will show them that they are wrong about sin, because they didn't have faith in me. </span><span class="v43_16_10"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.10" class="v43_16_10">10</span>They are wrong about God's justice, because I am going to the Father, and you won't see me again. </span><span class="v43_16_11"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.11" class="v43_16_11">11</span>And they are wrong about the judgment, because God has already judged the ruler of this world.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_12"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.12" class="v43_16_12">12</span>I have much more to say to you, but right now it would be more than you could understand. </span><span class="v43_16_13"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.13" class="v43_16_13">13</span><a href="#fn" id="link_John.16.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Spirit shows what is true and will come and guide you into the full truth. The Spirit doesn't speak on his own. He will tell you only what he has heard from me, and he will let you know what is going to happen. </span><span class="v43_16_14"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.14" class="v43_16_14">14</span>The Spirit will bring glory to me by taking my message and telling it to you. </span><span class="v43_16_15"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.15" class="v43_16_15">15</span>Everything the Father has is mine. This is why I have said that the Spirit takes my message and tells it to you.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Sorrow Will Turn into Joy</h3><p class="par"><span class="v43_16_16"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.16" class="v43_16_16">16</span>Jesus told his disciples, “For a little while you won't see me, but after a while you will see me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_16_17"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.17" class="v43_16_17">17</span>They said to each other, “What does Jesus mean by saying that for a little while we won't see him, but after a while we will see him? What does he mean by saying he is going to the Father? </span><span class="v43_16_18"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.18" class="v43_16_18">18</span>What is this ‘little while’ that he is talking about? We don't know what he means.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_16_19"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.19" class="v43_16_19">19</span>Jesus knew they had some questions, so he said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_19">You are wondering what I meant when I said that for a little while you won't see me, but after a while you will see me. </span><span class="v43_16_20"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.20" class="v43_16_20">20</span>I tell you for certain that you will cry and be sad, but the world will be happy. You will be sad, but later you will be happy.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_21"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.21" class="v43_16_21">21</span>When a woman is about to give birth, she is in great pain. But after it is all over, she forgets the pain and is happy, because she has brought a child into the world. </span><span class="v43_16_22"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.22" class="v43_16_22">22</span>You are now very sad. But later I will see you, and you will be so happy that no one will be able to change the way you feel. </span><span class="v43_16_23"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.23" class="v43_16_23">23</span>When that time comes, you won't have to ask me about anything. I tell you for certain the Father will give you whatever you ask for in my name. </span><span class="v43_16_24"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.24" class="v43_16_24">24</span>You have not asked for anything in this way before, but now you must ask in my name.<a href="#fn" id="link_John.16.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> Then it will be given to you, so you will be completely happy.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_25"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.25" class="v43_16_25">25</span>I have used examples to explain to you what I have been talking about. But the time will come when I will speak to you plainly about the Father and will no longer use examples like these. </span><span class="v43_16_26"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.26" class="v43_16_26">26</span>You will ask the Father in my name,<a href="#fn" id="link_John.16.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and I won't have to ask him for you. </span><span class="v43_16_27"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.27" class="v43_16_27">27</span>God the Father loves you because you love me, and you believe I have come from him. </span><span class="v43_16_28"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.28" class="v43_16_28">28</span>I came from the Father into the world, but I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_16_29"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.29" class="v43_16_29">29</span>The disciples said, “Now you are speaking plainly to us! You are not using examples. </span><span class="v43_16_30"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.30" class="v43_16_30">30</span>At last we know that you understand everything, and we don't have any more questions. Now we believe you truly have come from God.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v43_16_31"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.31" class="v43_16_31">31</span>Jesus replied:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v43_16_31">Do you really believe me? </span><span class="v43_16_32"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.32" class="v43_16_32">32</span>The time will come and is already here when all of you will be scattered. Each of you will go back home and leave me by myself. But the Father will be with me, and I won't be alone. </span><span class="v43_16_33"><span class="reftext" id="John.16.33" class="v43_16_33">33</span>I have told you this, so that you might have peace in your hearts because of me. While you are in the world, you will have to suffer. But cheer up! I have defeated the world.<a href="#fn" id="link_John.16.33!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.7 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">help: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 14.16.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.23,24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">in my name … in my name: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “as my disciples … as my disciples.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.26 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">in my name: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “because you are my followers.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">16.33 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">world: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 12.31.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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