John 16:10

The Spirit convicts the world concerning righteousness because Jesus is going to the Father and will no longer be seen. Christ's exaltation vindicates His righteousness.

Cross-references · 23

• 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Rom 10:3–4For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
• 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• Jer 23:5–6“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
• Acts 3:14But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• Phil 3:7–9However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Cor 15:14–20If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.
• Rom 8:33–34Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
• Isa 45:24–25They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.
• Heb 10:5–13Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Isa 42:21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
• Acts 2:32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
• Rom 3:21–26But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
• Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
• Gal 5:5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
• John 5:32It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
• Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
• Rom 5:17–21For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
• John 3:14As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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