John 16:9

The Spirit convicts the world of sin because people do not believe in Jesus. Unbelief in Christ is the root sin exposed.

Cross-references · 17

• John 15:22–25If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
• John 12:47–48If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
• John 8:23–24He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
• Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
• Heb 3:12Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
• John 8:42–47Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• Acts 2:22–38“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,
• Acts 3:14–19But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• John 3:18–21He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
• Heb 10:28–29A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
• 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
• Acts 7:51–54“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• John 5:40–44Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Rom 7:9I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
• Acts 26:9–10“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• 1 Tim 1:13although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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