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 he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• Rom 10:3–4For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
• 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• Jer 23:5–6Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
• 1 Tim 3:16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
• Acts 3:14But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
• Phil 3:7–9But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Cor 15:14–20And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
• Rom 8:33–34Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
• Isa 45:24–25Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
• Heb 10:5–13Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• Isa 42:21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
• Acts 2:32This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
• Rom 3:21–26But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
• Rom 1:17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
• Gal 5:5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
• John 5:32There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
• Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
• Rom 5:17–21For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
• John 3:14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
• Acts 7:52Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

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