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John 16:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
John 16:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 But because I have said these things unto you, your hearts are full of sorrow.
7 [a]Yet I tell you the truth, It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, that Comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart, I will send him unto you,
8 [b]And when he is come, he will [c]reprove the [d]world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
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- John 16:7 The absence of Christ, according to the flesh, is profitable to the Church, that we may wholly depend upon his spiritual power.
- John 16:8 The Spirit of God worketh so mightily by the preaching of the word, that he constraineth the world, will it, nill it, to confess its own unrighteousness, and Christ’s righteousness and almightiness.
- John 16:8 He will so reprove the world, that the worldlings shall be able to present no excuse.
- John 16:8 He respecteth the time that followed his ascension, when as all gainsayers were manifestly reproved through the pouring out of the holy Ghost upon the Church: So that the very enemies of Christ were reproved of sin, in that they were constrained to confess that they were deceived, in that they believed not, and therefore they said to Peter, Acts 2, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
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