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John 16:1-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. "These things I have spoken to you, so that you would not stumble.

2. They will put you out of the synagogues. But the hour is coming when everyone who puts you to death will consider that he is offering an excellent service to God.

3. And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.

4. But these things I have spoken to you, so that, when the hour for these things will have arrived, you may remember that I told you.

5. But I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I am going to him who sent me. And no one among you has asked me, 'Where are you going?'

6. But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

7. But I tell you the truth: it is expedient for you that I am going. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But when I will have gone away, I will send him to you.

8. And when he has arrived, he will argue against the world, about sin and about justice and about judgment:

9. about sin, indeed, because they have not believed in me;

10. about justice, truly, because I am going to the Father, and you will not see me any longer;

11. about judgment, then, because the prince of this world has already been judged.

12. I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

13. But when the Spirit of truth has arrived, he will teach the whole truth to you. For he will not be speaking from himself. Instead, whatever he will hear, he will speak. And he will announce to you the things that are to come.

14. He shall glorify me. For he will receive from what is mine, and he will announce it to you.

15. All things whatsoever that the Father has are mine. For this reason, I said that he will receive from what is mine and that he will announce it to you.

16. A little while, and then you will not see me. And again a little while, and you will see me. For I am going to the Father."

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