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 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Rom 10:3–4Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
• Jer 23:5–6Behold, 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.
• 1 Tim 3:16By 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.
• Acts 3:14You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
• Phil 3:7–9But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
• 1 Cor 15:14–20And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is worthless, and so is your faith.
• Rom 8:33–34Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
• Isa 45:24–25Surely 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.
• Heb 10:5–13Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.
• Dan 9:24Seventy 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.
• Isa 42:21The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.
• Acts 2:32God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
• Rom 3:21–26But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
• Rom 1:17For 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.”
• Gal 5:5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.
• John 5:32There is another who testifies about Me, and I know that His testimony about Me is valid.
• Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
• Rom 5:17–21For 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!
• John 3:14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

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