John 15:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.

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  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.
  • John 16:3 : 3 And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father who honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God:
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
  • Matt 10:39 : 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
  • Ps 69:7 : 7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.
  • Isa 66:5 : 5 Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:18 : 18 And you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony against them and the Gentiles.
  • Acts 3:17 : 17 And now, brethren, I know that through ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
  • Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake.
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For as I passed by and observed your objects of worship, I found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the one whom you worship without knowing—Him I proclaim to you.
  • Acts 28:25-27 : 25 And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had said one word, The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, 26 saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive. 27 For the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, so that I should heal them.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 which none of the rulers of this world knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 But if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those who are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone 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 those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 But rejoice, since you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is spoken of as evil, but on your part he is glorified.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 And have borne, and have patience, and for my name's sake have labored, and have not fainted.

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    1I have spoken these things to you so that you may not be offended.

    2They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

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

    4But I have told you these things, so when the time comes, you may remember I told you about them. I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

  • John 15:17-20
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    17These things I command you, that you love one another.

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

    19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

    20Remember the word I said to you, 'The servant is not greater than his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

  • Luke 21:16-17
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    16And you shall be betrayed both by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends; and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

    17And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.

  • Luke 21:12-13
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    12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

    13And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

  • Matt 24:9
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    9Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

  • John 15:22-25
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    22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

    23He who hates me hates my Father also.

    24If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

    25But this happens so that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

  • John 17:25-26
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    25O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

    26And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.

  • Mark 13:13
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    13And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.

  • Matt 10:22
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    22And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • Matt 5:11
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    11Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  • John 8:19
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    19Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.

  • John 17:7-8
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    7Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are from you.

    8For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have surely known that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

  • Mark 13:9
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    9But take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you to councils; and in the synagogues you shall be beaten; and you shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.

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    27They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father.

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    15From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

  • John 13:16-17
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    16Truly, truly, I say to you, The servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.

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

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    21Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard me what I have said to them. Indeed, they know what I said.

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  • Matt 17:12
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    12But I say to you, That Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they wished. Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer by them.

  • Matt 10:18
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    18And you shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, as a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

  • John 10:25
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    25Jesus answered them, I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

  • Acts 13:27
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    27For those who dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

  • John 14:25
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    25These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.

  • John 10:6
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    6This parable Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

  • John 13:35
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    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • John 14:20
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    20At that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

  • John 17:21
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    21That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.

  • John 16:26
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    26In that day you will ask in my name: and I do not say to you that I will pray the Father for you:

  • John 7:7
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    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.

  • John 16:32
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    32Behold, the hour is coming, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, each to his own, and leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

  • Luke 6:22
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    22Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.