John 15:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.

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  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Yea, and all that will liue godly in Christ Iesus, shall suffer persecution.
  • Ezek 3:7 : 7 But the house of Israel will not obey thee: for they will not obey me: yea, all the house of Israel are impudent and stiffe hearted.
  • Matt 10:24 : 24 The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his Lord.
  • 2 Cor 4:9 : 9 We are persecuted, but not forsaken: cast downe, but we perish not.
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,
  • John 13:16 : 16 Verely, verely I say vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master, neither the ambassadour greater then he that sent him.
  • Isa 53:1-3 : 1 Who will beleeue our report? And to whom is the arme of the Lord reueiled? 2 But hee shall growe vp before him as a branche, and as a roote out of a dry grounde: he hath neither forme nor beautie: when we shall see him, there shall be no forme that wee should desire him. 3 He is despised and reiected of men: he is a man full of sorowes and hath experience of infirmities: we hidde as it were our faces from him: he was despised and we esteemed him not.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it.
  • 1 Sam 8:7 : 7 And the Lord said vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they shall say vnto thee: for they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, that I should not reigne ouer the.
  • Acts 4:27-30 : 27 For doutlesse, against thine holy Sonne Iesus, whome thou haddest anoynted, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel gathered themselues together, 28 To doe whatsoeuer thine hand, and thy counsell had determined before to be done. 29 And nowe, O Lorde, beholde their threatnings, and graunt vnto thy seruants with all boldnesse to speake thy word, 30 So that thou stretch forth thine hand, that healing, and signes, and wonders may be done by the Name of thine holy Sonne Iesus.
  • Acts 7:52-60 : 52 Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? & they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers, 53 Which haue receiued the Lawe by the ordinance of Angels, and haue not kept it. 54 But when they heard these thinges, their heartes brast for anger, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he being full of the holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God, & Iesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 And said, Beholde, I see the heauens open, and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God. 57 Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voyce, and stopped their eares, and ranne vpon him violently all at once, 58 And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, named Saul. 59 And they stoned Steuen, who called on God, and said, Lord Iesus, receiue my spirit. 60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loude voyce, Lorde, laye not this sinne to their charge; when he had thus spoken, he slept.
  • Luke 2:34 : 34 And Simeon blessed them, and saide vnto Mary his mother, Beholde, this childe is appointed for the fall and rising againe of many in Israel, and for a signe which shalbe spoken against,
  • Luke 6:40 : 40 The disciple is not aboue his master: but whosoeuer will be a perfect disciple, shall bee as his master.
  • John 5:16 : 16 And therefore the Iewes did persecute Iesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
  • John 7:32 : 32 The Pharises heard that the people murmured these thinges of him, and the Pharises, and high Priestes sent officers to take him.
  • John 8:51 : 51 Verely, verely I say vnto you, If a man keepe my word, he shall neuer see death.
  • John 8:59 : 59 Then tooke they vp stones, to cast at him, but Iesus hid himselfe, and went out of the Temple: And hee passed through the middes of them, and so went his way.
  • John 10:31 : 31 Then ye Iewes againe tooke vp stones, to stone him.
  • John 11:57 : 57 Nowe both the hie Priestes and the Pharises had giuen a commaundement, that if any man knew where he were, he should shewe it, that they might take him.

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    14 Ye are my friendes, if ye doe whatsoeuer I commaund you.

    15 Henceforth call I you not seruants: for the seruant knoweth not what his master doeth: but I haue called you friends: for all things that I haue heard of my Father, haue I made knowen to you.

    16 Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordeined you, that ye goe & bring foorth fruite, and that your fruite remaine, that whatsoeuer ye shall aske of the Father in my Name, he may giue it you.

    17 These things commaunde I you, that ye loue one another.

    18 If the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before you.

    19 If ye were of the worlde, the world woulde loue his owne: but because ye are not of ye world, but I haue chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

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    21 But all these things will they doe vnto you for my Names sake, because they haue not knowen him that sent me.

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    15 For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.

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  • Matt 10:22-25
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    22 And yee shall be hated of all men for my Name: but he that endureth to the end, he shall be saued.

    23 And when they persecute you in this citie, flee into another: for verely I say vnto you, yee shall not goe ouer all the cities of Israel, till the Sonne of man be come.

    24 The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his Lord.

    25 It is ynough for the disciple to bee as his master is, and the seruaunt as his Lorde. If they haue called the master of the house Beel-zebub, howe much more them of his housholde?

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    14 I haue giuen them thy word, & the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

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    1 These thinges haue I saide vnto you, that ye should not be offended.

    2 They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.

    3 And these things will they doe vnto you, because they haue not knowen ye Father, nor me.

    4 But these things haue I tolde you, that when the houre shall come, ye might remember, that I tolde you them; these things said I not vnto you from ye beginning, because I was with you.

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    10 Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.

    11 Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, & say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely.

    12 Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.

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    15 If ye loue me, keepe my comandements,

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    24 He that loueth me not, keepeth not my wordes, & the worde which ye heare, is not mine, but the Fathers which sent me.

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    7 If ye abide in me, and my wordes abide in you, aske what ye wil, & it shalbe done to you.

    8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye beare much fruite, and be made my disciples.

    9 As the father hath loued me, so haue I loued you: continue in that my loue.

    10 If ye shall keepe my commandements, ye shall abide in my loue, as I haue kept my Fathers commandements, and abide in his loue.

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    26 If any man serue me, let him followe me: for where I am, there shall also my seruant be: and if any man serue me, him will my Father honour.

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    17 And ye shall bee hated of all men for my Names sake.

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    23 He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.

    24 If I had not done workes among them which none other man did, they had not had sinne: but nowe haue they both seene, and haue hated both me, and my Father.

    25 But it is that the worde might be fulfilled, that is written in their Lawe, They hated me without a cause.

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    35 By this shall all men knowe that ye are my disciples, if ye haue loue one to another.

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    12 But before all these, they shal lay their hands on you, and persecute you, deliuering you vp to the assemblies, and into prisons, and bring you before Kings and rulers for my Names sake.

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    17 But beware of men, for they will deliuer you vp to the Councils, and will scourge you in their Synagogues.

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    4 Abide in me, and I in you: as the branche cannot beare fruite of it selfe, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

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    32 Beholde, the houre commeth, and is already come, that ye shalbe scattered euery man into his owne, and shall leaue me alone: but I am not alone: for the Father is with me.

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    27 And ye shall witnesse also, because ye haue bene with me from the beginning.

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    20 At that day shall ye knowe that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

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    28 And yee are they which haue continued with me in my tentations.