John 16:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • John 15:21 : 21 ‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›
  • John 17:25 : 25 ‹O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.›
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ‹Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.›
  • John 8:55 : 55 ‹Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.›
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 ¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 ‹All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and› [he] ‹to whom the Son will reveal› [him].
  • John 15:23 : 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›
  • John 17:3 : 3 ‹And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.›
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did [it] ignorantly in unbelief.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 85%

    20 ‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›

    21 ‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›

    22 ‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.›

    23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›

    24 ‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›

    25 ‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.›

  • John 16:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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.›

  • 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ‹Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.›

  • 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.›

  • 25 ‹O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.›

  • 42 ‹But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.›

  • John 8:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.

    28 Then said Jesus unto them, ‹When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am› [he], ‹and› [that] ‹I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.›

  • 7 ‹If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.›

  • 74%

    17 ‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›

    18 ¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›

  • 14 ‹I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›

  • 20 ‹At that day ye shall know that I› [am] ‹in my Father, and ye in me, and I in 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.›

  • 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.›

  • 73%

    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.›

  • John 16:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 ‹Of sin, because they believe not on me;›

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

  • 55 ‹Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.›

  • 7 ‹The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.›

  • John 8:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37 ‹I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.›

    38 ¶ ‹I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.›

  • 72%

    16 ‹And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and› [some] ‹of you shall they cause to be put to death.›

    17 ‹And ye shall be hated of all› [men] ‹for my name's sake.›

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

  • 71%

    24 ‹He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.›

    25 ¶ ‹These things have I spoken unto you, being› [yet] ‹present with you.›

  • 43 ‹Why do ye not understand my speech?› [even] ‹because ye cannot hear my word.›

  • 71%

    30 ‹Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.›

    31 ‹But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.›

  • 16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and [that] they had done these things unto him.

  • 17 ‹If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.›

  • 12 ‹Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against› [their] ‹parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.›

  • 15 ‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›

  • 7 ‹Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.›

  • 38 ‹And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.›

  • 16 ‹They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›

  • 23 ‹I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.›

  • 17 And the way of peace have they not known:

  • 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?›

  • 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled [them] in condemning [him].

  • 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.