John 16:3

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They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

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  • John 15:21 : 21 But they will do all these things to you because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, though the world has not known You, I have known You, and they have known that You sent Me.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then 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."
  • John 8:55 : 55 Yet 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.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.
  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
  • John 15:23 : 23 Whoever hates me also hates my Father.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 This wisdom none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 Even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie, 12 in order that all who did not believe the truth but delighted in wickedness might be judged.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:20-25
    6 verses
    85%

    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.

    22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

    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 16:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

    2They will ban you from the synagogue. But the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

  • John 8:19
    79%

    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."

  • John 16:4
    79%

    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 17:25
    77%

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

  • John 5:42
    74%

    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • John 8:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

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

    28So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.

  • John 14:7
    74%

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

  • John 15:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17This is my command: Love one another.

    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

  • John 17:14
    73%

    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 14:20
    73%

    20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

  • John 16:16
    73%

    16A little while, and you will no longer see me; and again a little while, and you will see me, because I am going to the Father.

  • John 16:32
    73%

    32'Look, the hour is coming—in fact, it has already arrived—when you will be scattered, each to your own home, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.'

  • John 16:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    26On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf,

    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • John 16:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    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 8:55
    73%

    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.

  • John 7:7
    72%

    7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • John 8:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

  • Luke 21:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and some of you will be put to death.

    17Everyone will hate you because of my name.

  • John 16:6
    72%

    6Instead, because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts.

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

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

  • John 8:43
    71%

    43Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

  • John 14:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

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

    31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.

  • John 12:16
    71%

    16At first, His disciples did not understand these things. But when Jesus was glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

  • John 13:17
    71%

    17If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

  • Mark 13:12
    71%

    12Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

  • John 15:15
    71%

    15I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.

  • John 17:7
    71%

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

  • John 5:38
    71%

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

  • John 17:16
    71%

    16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23I in them and You in Me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

    17And the way of peace they have not known.

  • John 16:19
    71%

    19Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, 'Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, “A little while and you will no longer see me; and again a little while and you will see me”?'

  • Acts 13:27
    70%

    27The people living in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing Him or the words of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.

  • John 5:16
    70%

    16Because of this, the Jews began to persecute Jesus and tried to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.