John 16

Which worship songs are based on John 16?

  1. The Christmas Song — Francesca Battistelli (2012) John 16:7

    The bridge links Jesus’ future departure with the continuing presence of his Spirit. This closely adapts Jesus’ explanation that his departure leads to the sending of the Advocate.

  2. Desenvolvendo Amor — MORADA (2013) John 16:8

    The pre-chorus attributes conviction to God's Spirit, closely adapting Jesus's description of the Spirit's convicting work. The song applies that work to personal behavioral change.

  3. Show Me the Way — John Schlitt (2011) John 16:13-14

    The supplied lyric heading explicitly cites Jesus' promise that the Spirit will guide his disciples into truth. The song applies that promise through its requests for divine guidance and instruction, rather than directly reproducing the passage's wording.

  4. The Name Of Jesus — Aaron Shust (2007) John 16:14

    The chorus assigns the Spirit the particular work of exalting Jesus, reflecting Jesus' statement that the Spirit will glorify him.

  5. The Greatest Love of All — Neal Morse (2019) John 16:16

    Jesus' warning that Mary will soon cease to see him closely reproduces his farewell prediction to the disciples about his coming absence and return.

  6. Spring Is Coming — Steven Curtis Chapman (2009) John 16:20

    The outro closely reproduces Jesus' promise that his disciples' sorrow will become joy. The song applies this promised reversal to grief and the expectation of life beyond death.

  7. Give Them All to Jesus — Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (2019) John 16:20

    The chorus closely echoes Jesus’ promise to his disciples that their grief would be transformed into joy. The song applies that promise broadly to surrendered disappointments and emotional wounds.

  8. Lift up Your Head — Laura Hackett Park (2014) John 16:20-22

    The chorus connects the arrival of joy with forgetting sorrow, closely echoing Jesus' description of anguish no longer remembered after childbirth. The surrounding passage promises that the disciples' sorrow will become joy.

  9. Season of Rain — Josh Garrels (2008) John 16:21

    The movement from labor pains to culminating joy closely reflects Jesus’ comparison of sorrow turning into joy with a woman’s experience of childbirth.

  10. Lord, I Believe in You — Crystal Lewis (2011) John 16:22

    The chorus closely adapts Jesus's assurance that no one will take his disciples' joy from them. Its emphasis on enduring joy also fits the passage's anticipation of reunion with Jesus after sorrow.

  11. I Smile — Kirk Franklin (2011) John 16:22

    The outro closely paraphrases Jesus’ assurance that no one will take his disciples’ joy from them. This specific promise, rather than the song’s broader encouragement to persevere, establishes the connection.

  12. Worship You — Canton Jones (2011) John 16:22

    The bridge closely adapts Jesus' assurance that nobody can take away his disciples' joy. The song applies that assurance personally, without reproducing the passage's context of sorrow turning into joy upon seeing Jesus again.

  13. Can't Take My Joy Away — VaShawn Mitchell (2011) John 16:22

    The repeated assertion that others cannot take the singer's joy closely adapts Jesus' promise that no one will take his disciples' joy from them. The accompanying movement from sorrow toward joy reinforces this connection.

  14. (Never Gonna) Steal My Joy — Mandisa (2007) John 16:22

    The repeated assertion that others cannot take away the singer's joy closely echoes Jesus' assurance that no one will take his disciples' joy from them.

  15. Pray It Up — Joel Vaughn (2018) John 16:23-24

    The song closely reflects Jesus’ teaching that his followers may ask the Father in his name and receive. Its repeated combination of asking, receiving, and praying in Jesus’ name makes this passage the clearest source.

  16. The Kingdom of Jesus — The Porter's Gate (2024) John 16:33

    The proclamation that Christ has overcome the world directly echoes Jesus’ closing encouragement to his disciples before his arrest.

  17. Overcome — Building 429 (2008) John 16:33

    The chorus directly adapts Jesus’ declaration of victory over the world. The acknowledgment of continuing sorrow and the resolve to remain courageous also reflect this verse’s pairing of tribulation with assurance.

  18. The Children's Song — Josh Garrels (2013) John 16:33

    The third verse closely adapts Jesus’ warning that his followers will experience trouble in the world and his assurance that he has overcome it. This pairing unmistakably identifies the passage.

  19. For the Lamb — Elevation Worship (2014) John 16:33

    The chorus closely adapts Jesus’ declaration that he has conquered the world, identifying the victorious Jesus as the Lamb.

  20. Ten Thousand (Alternate Full Band Version) [Remastered] — John Mark McMillan (2018) John 16:33

    The chorus adapts Jesus’ declaration that he has overcome the world, placing that victory confession in the voice of the redeemed community.

  21. We Too Have Overcome - Live — CityAlight (2025) John 16:33

    The opening closely follows Jesus’ teaching that his disciples will experience trouble yet can be courageous because he has conquered the world.

  22. SMS (Shine) - Radio Version — David Crowder Band (2013) John 16:33

    The final declaration of Christ's overcoming victory echoes Jesus' announcement that he has conquered the world. It answers the earlier plea from an overwhelmed heart with assurance grounded in his victory.

  23. New Normal — Cade Thompson (2021) John 16:33

    The bridge and outro directly adapt Jesus’ warning that his followers will face trouble, his command to take courage, and his declaration of victory over the world.

  24. Kingdom Come — Elevation Worship (2010) John 16:33

    The chorus directly adapts Jesus’ encouragement to be courageous because he has conquered the world, turning his assurance into a congregational response.

  25. Overcome the World — Every Nation Music (2014) John 16:33

    The song repeatedly adapts Jesus’ declaration that he has overcome the world, changing his first-person assurance into worship addressed directly to him. This is the song’s central and unmistakable scriptural reference.

  26. My Shelter — Jordan Feliz (2018) John 16:33

    The song joins the expectation of real suffering with confidence that Christ has already overcome it, closely reflecting Jesus’ assurance that his followers will face trouble but can take courage because he has overcome the world.

  27. Our God Reigns Here — John Waller (2011) John 16:33

    The bridge closely adapts Jesus’ declaration of victory over the world. The chorus’s assurance against fear also fits the encouragement Jesus gives in this verse amid trouble.

  28. Victor?s Crown (Live) — Darlene Zschech (2013) John 16:33

    The chorus directly adapts Jesus’ declaration of victory over the world, turning his first-person statement into praise addressed to him.

  29. Follow You — Stars Will Fall (2024) John 16:33

    The assurance that earthly life includes trouble, followed by a call to courage because Christ has overcome, closely paraphrases Jesus’ farewell teaching.

  30. It’s Never as Dark as It Seems to Be — Jaci Velasquez (2017) John 16:33

    The acknowledgment of trouble in the world is immediately answered by confidence in Christ’s victory, closely following Jesus’ assurance that he has overcome the world.

  31. Never Quit — Sam Purpose (2017) John 16:33

    The introduction closely reproduces Jesus’ warning that his followers will experience trouble, together with his assurance that he has overcome the world.

  32. Greater — Elevation Worship (2013) John 16:33

    The bridge directly adapts Jesus’ declaration that he has conquered the world. In its original context, this assurance grounds the disciples’ courage despite the troubles they will face.

  33. Take Heart — Hillsong UNITED (2011) John 16:33

    The song combines Jesus’ victory over the world with an invitation to renewed courage amid trouble. This closely adapts Jesus’ encouragement to his disciples at the conclusion of his farewell discourse.

  34. Strength of My Heart — People of the Earth (2018) John 16:33

    The bridge repeats Jesus' declaration of victory over the world from his farewell discourse, presenting that victory as already accomplished.

  35. Take Heart (John 16:33) - Live — Shane & Shane & Kingdom Kids (2022) John 16:33

    The title, opening exhortation, and chorus directly reproduce Jesus’ assurance that his disciples can have courage amid trouble because he has conquered the world.

  36. SMS (Shine) — David Crowder Band (2009) John 16:33

    The closing declaration of Christ's overcoming, paired with the worldwide scope of the final chorus, closely adapts Jesus' declaration that he has overcome the world. The movement from personal distress to confidence in his victory also fits the verse's context.

  37. Victorious — Elevation Worship (2011) John 16:33

    The ending directly adapts Jesus' declaration that he has overcome the world, making his victory the basis for the congregation's confidence in overcoming.

  38. Greater Is He — Aaron Shust (2011) John 16:33

    The bridge closely adapts Jesus' encouragement to courage grounded in his victory over the world. It changes the speaker and wording while retaining the passage's distinctive assurance.

  39. The Great Overcomer — Aaron Shust (2015) John 16:33

    The chorus directly adapts Jesus’ declaration of victory over the world. Its surrounding acknowledgment of threatening circumstances also fits the passage’s assurance amid tribulation.

  40. Maker of the Wind — Big Daddy Weave (2012) John 16:33

    The second verse pairs the experience of trouble with a reminder of divine victory, closely adapting Jesus' declaration that he has overcome the world despite the suffering his disciples will face.

John 16 (King James Version)

1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.

2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

4 But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.

5 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

7 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 depart, I will send him unto you.

8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

10 Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.

17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father?

18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith.

19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me?

20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:

27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

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

29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.

30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

31 Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

32 Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now 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.

33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.