Yet I am telling you the truth: It will be helpful to you for me to go away. For unless I go, the Helper [i.e., the Holy Spirit] will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.
John 16:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) And when He does come, He will bring conviction to the world regarding sin [i.e., exposing it and producing guilt], regarding what is right [i.e., upholding godly standards], and regarding judgment [i.e., showing that sin condemns]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And when He comes, He will convict and convince the world and bring demonstration to it about sin and about righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God) and about judgment: American Standard Version (1901) And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Common English Bible When he comes, he will show the world it was wrong about sin, righteousness, and judgment. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he has arrived, he will argue against the world, about sin and about justice and about judgment: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment. |
Yet I am telling you the truth: It will be helpful to you for me to go away. For unless I go, the Helper [i.e., the Holy Spirit] will not come to you. But if I go, I will send Him to you.
Which one of you can prove me guilty of sinning? If I tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?
And when they heard [what He had said], they [all] left, one at a time, beginning with the oldest men. So, Jesus was left alone with the woman [still standing] there where she was.
Now when the people heard this message [of Peter and the other apostles, See verse 14], they were convicted [of its truth] in their hearts and said to Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do [about our condemned condition]?”
But if everyone prophesies and someone comes [into the assembly] who is an outsider or an unbeliever, he will be convicted [of his sins] by everyone [i.e., who speaks the message in an intelligible language], and judged by everyone.
to bring judgment upon all [such people], and to convict every person of their ungodly behavior, which they have wickedly committed, and of all the evil things that [such] ungodly sinners have spoken against God.”