John 16:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;

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  • John 14:26 : 26 and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.
  • John 15:26 : 26 `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;
  • John 14:16-17 : 16 and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age; 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
  • John 7:39 : 39 and this he said of the Spirit, which those believing in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
  • Rom 8:28 : 28 And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear;
  • Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.
  • John 11:50-52 : 50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.' 51 And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation, 52 and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.
  • John 14:3 : 3 and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;
  • Luke 24:49 : 49 `And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'
  • John 8:45-46 : 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me. 46 Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?
  • Acts 10:34 : 34 And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,
  • 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us --
  • Eph 4:8-9 : 8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' -- 9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? 10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things -- 11 and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers, 12 unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ, 13 till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,
  • Acts 1:4-5 : 4 And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, `saith he,' `Ye did hear of me; 5 because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.'
  • John 14:28 : 28 ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.
  • Luke 4:25 : 25 and of a truth I say to you, Many widows were in the days of Elijah, in Israel, when the heaven was shut for three years and six months, when great famine came on all the land,
  • Luke 9:27 : 27 and I say to you, truly, there are certain of those here standing, who shall not taste of death till they may see the reign of God.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 16:4-6
    3 verses
    83%

    4 `But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said `them' to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

    5 and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

    6 but because these things I have said to you, the sorrow hath filled your heart.

  • 82%

    15 `If ye love me, my commands keep,

    16 and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age;

    17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

    18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;

    19 yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

    20 in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

  • 26 `And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

  • 8 and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

  • 78%

    25 `These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,

    26 and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

    27 `Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

    28 ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

    29 `And now I have said `it' to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

    30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

    31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

  • 77%

    10 and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

    11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

    12 `I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear `them' now;

    13 and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

    14 He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you.

    15 `All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;

    16 a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.'

    17 Therefore said `some' of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?'

  • John 14:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

    3 and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

    4 and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'

  • 73%

    22 `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,

    23 and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;

  • 33 `Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say `it' now.

  • John 7:33-34
    2 verses
    72%

    33 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;

    34 ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

  • 72%

    25 `These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

    26 `In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you,

    27 for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

    28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'

  • 32 and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

  • John 8:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

    22 The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

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    19 Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

    20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become.

  • 4 And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, `saith he,' `Ye did hear of me;

  • John 14:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

    7 if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

  • 16 and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;

  • 13 `And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

  • 23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

  • 20 verily, verily, I say to you, he who is receiving whomsoever I may send, doth receive me; and he who is receiving me, doth receive Him who sent me.'