John 16:10
Good News Translation
they are wrong about what is right, because I am going to the Father and you will not see me any more;

New Revised Standard Version
about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

Contemporary English Version
They are wrong about God's justice, because I am going to the Father, and you won't see me again.

New American Bible
righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer.

righteousness.

Isaiah 42:21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.

Isaiah 45:24,25 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear. . . .

Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will raise up to David a just branch: and a king shall reign, and shall be wise: and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. . . .

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.

Acts 2:32 This Jesus hath God raised again, whereof all we are witnesses.

Romans 1:17 For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Romans 3:21-26 But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. . . .

Romans 5:17-21 For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ. . . .

Romans 8:33,34 Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God is he that justifieth: . . .

Romans 10:3,4 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

1 Corinthians 15:14-20 And if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain: and your faith is also vain. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Galatians 5:5 For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

Philippians 3:7-9 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. . . .

1 Timothy 3:16 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Hebrews 10:5-13 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me. . . .

because.

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:

John 5:32 There is another that beareth witness of me: and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

Context
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
9Of sin: because they believed not in me. 10And of justice: because I go to the Father: and you shall see me no longer. 11And of judgment: because the prince of this world is already judged.…
Cross References
John 7:33
Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you: and then I go to him that sent me.

John 16:5
But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?

John 16:28
I came forth from the Father and am come into the world: again I leave the world and I go to the Father.

Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

Acts 7:52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers.

Acts 17:31
Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.

1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

John 16:9
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