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John 16:1-8 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

1. “I have told you this so that you may not fall away.

2. They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.

3. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.

4. I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you. “I did not tell you this from the beginning, because I was with you.

5. But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

6. But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.

7. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

8. And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation:

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