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John 16:10

John 16:10 is verse 10 of John chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

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King James Version

Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

World English Bible

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;

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John 16:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 And when He comes, He will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:

9 in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

10 in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

11 and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 42:21

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

Isaiah 45:24

Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.

Isaiah 45:25

In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.

Jeremiah 23:5

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 23:6

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Acts 2:32

God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.

Romans 1:17

For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 3:21

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 3:22

And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

Romans 3:23

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:24

and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:25

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Romans 3:26

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 5:17

For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Romans 5:18

So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

Romans 5:19

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Romans 5:20

The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 8:33

Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

Romans 8:34

Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

Romans 10:3

Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Romans 10:4

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

1 Corinthians 15:14

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.

1 Corinthians 15:15

In that case, we are also exposed as false witnesses about God. For we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead, but He did not raise Him if in fact the dead are not raised.

1 Corinthians 15:16

For if the dead are not raised, then not even Christ has been raised.

1 Corinthians 15:17

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

1 Corinthians 15:18

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 5:5

But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.

Philippians 3:7

But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

Philippians 3:9

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

1 Timothy 3:16

By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

Hebrews 10:5

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

Hebrews 10:6

In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

Hebrews 10:7

Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

Hebrews 10:8

In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

Hebrews 10:9

Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 10:10

And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:11

Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

Hebrews 10:12

But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

Hebrews 10:13

Since that time, He waits for His enemies to be made a footstool for His feet,

John 3:14

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

John 5:32

There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.

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