John 15:22

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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus replied, 'If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you claim, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.
  • Rom 1:20 : 20 For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes—His eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 So, if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore, the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 In the past, God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
  • John 12:48 : 48 The one who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge: The word I have spoken will judge them on the last day.
  • Ezek 2:5 : 5 Whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.
  • Ezek 33:31-33 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain. 32 Indeed, to them you are like someone who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays the instrument well. They listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice. 33 When it happens—and behold, it will happen—they will know that a prophet was among them.
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 the master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the unfaithful.
  • John 3:18-21 : 18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is already condemned, because they have not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly seen that their deeds have been done in God.
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore, you have no excuse, O person, whoever you are who judges. For when you judge someone else, you condemn yourself, because you practice the same things you judge others for.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in Christ’s triumphal procession and manifests the aroma of the knowledge of Him through us in every place. 15 For we are the fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 To one, we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is adequate for such a task?
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God again for themselves and subjecting Him to public disgrace. 7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.

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    23Whoever hates me also hates my Father.

    24If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

    25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'

  • John 9:41
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    41Jesus replied, 'If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you claim, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

  • John 16:8-10
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    8When he comes, he will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:

    9about sin, because they do not believe in me;

    10about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

  • John 15:18-21
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    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

    19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

    20Remember the word I spoke to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

    21But they will do all these things to you because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

  • John 17:13-14
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    13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

    14I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • John 16:3-4
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    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

    4I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you will remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you.

  • John 8:42
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    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

  • John 8:46
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    46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

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    29And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you may believe.

    30I will not speak much with you anymore, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

  • John 17:25
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    25Righteous Father, though the world has not known You, I have known You, and they have known that You sent Me.

  • John 8:19-21
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    19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

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    21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

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    7If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him and have seen him.

  • Mark 4:12
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    12"So that, 'Though they see, they may see and not perceive; and though they hear, they may hear and not understand; otherwise they might turn back and be forgiven.'

  • John 5:42-43
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    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

    43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. But if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

  • 1 John 1:8
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    8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

  • John 8:24
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    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

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    28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.

    29His disciples said to him, 'See, now you are speaking plainly and not using any figure of speech.'

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    7Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.

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  • John 3:19-20
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    19This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

    20For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.

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    39Jesus said, 'For judgment I came into this world, so that those who are blind may see and those who see may become blind.'

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    10If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

  • 1 John 3:5-6
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    5You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

    6No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

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    40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • John 12:46
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    46I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

  • John 16:25
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    25I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

  • John 5:38
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    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

  • John 8:26-27
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    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

    27They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

  • Matt 13:13
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    13That is why I speak to them in parables, because although they see, they do not see; and although they hear, they do not hear or understand.

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    25I have spoken these things to you while remaining with you.

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    30They answered him, 'If he weren’t a criminal, we wouldn’t have handed him over to you.'