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    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 16
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    "n": 16,
    "bookSlug": "john",
    "bookCode": "JHN",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JHN-16:1",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.1",
        "text": "These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JHN-16:2",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.2",
        "text": "They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JHN-16:3",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.3",
        "text": "And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JHN-16:4",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.4",
        "text": "But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JHN-16:5",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.5",
        "text": "But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JHN-16:6",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.6",
        "text": "But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JHN-16:7",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.7",
        "text": "Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JHN-16:8",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.8",
        "text": "And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JHN-16:9",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.9",
        "text": "of sin, because they believe not on me;"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JHN-16:10",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.10",
        "text": "of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JHN-16:11",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.11",
        "text": "of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JHN-16:12",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.12",
        "text": "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JHN-16:13",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.13",
        "text": "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JHN-16:14",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.14",
        "text": "He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JHN-16:15",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.15",
        "text": "All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JHN-16:16",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.16",
        "text": "A little while, and ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JHN-16:17",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.17",
        "text": "[Some] of his disciples therefore said one to another, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JHN-16:18",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.18",
        "text": "They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not what he saith."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JHN-16:19",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.19",
        "text": "Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, A little while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JHN-16:20",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.20",
        "text": "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JHN-16:21",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.21",
        "text": "A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JHN-16:22",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.22",
        "text": "And ye therefore now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one taketh away from you."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JHN-16:23",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.23",
        "text": "And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JHN-16:24",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.24",
        "text": "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JHN-16:25",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.25",
        "text": "These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JHN-16:26",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.26",
        "text": "In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you;"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JHN-16:27",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.27",
        "text": "for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father."
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JHN-16:28",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.28",
        "text": "I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JHN-16:29",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.29",
        "text": "His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark saying."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JHN-16:30",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.30",
        "text": "Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JHN-16:31",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.31",
        "text": "Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?"
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JHN-16:32",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.32",
        "text": "Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and [yet] I am not alone, because the Father is with me."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JHN-16:33",
        "verseRef": "JHN.16.33",
        "text": "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
      }
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