John 15:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.
  • Rom 1:20 : 20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, You could have no power against me at all, except it were given you from above: therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,
  • John 12:48 : 48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him: the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
  • Ezek 2:5 : 5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse, (for they are a rebellious house,) will yet know that there has been a prophet among them.
  • Ezek 33:31-33 : 31 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness. 32 And indeed, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do not do them. 33 And when this comes to pass—and indeed it will come—then they shall know that a prophet has been among them.
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
  • John 3:18-21 : 18 He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are that judges: for in what you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge do the same things.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us to triumph in Christ, and reveals the fragrance of His knowledge by us in every place. 15 For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is adequate for these things?
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame. 7 For the land that drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and produces crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God: 8 But that which bears thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near to being cursed, its end is to be burned.

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    23He who hates me hates my Father also.

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

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    41Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

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    8And when he has come, he will convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment:

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

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

  • John 15:18-21
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    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.

    21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.

  • John 17:13-14
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    13And now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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

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    42Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.

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    46Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

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    29And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it does come to pass, you might believe.

    30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world is coming, and he has nothing in me.

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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.

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    20These words spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no one laid hands on him; for his hour had not yet come.

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

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    12that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

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    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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    19This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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    5And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.

    6Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him.

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    26I have many things to say and to judge concerning you: but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard from him.

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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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    25These things I have spoken to you while being present with you.

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

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    30They answered and said to him, If he were not a wrongdoer, we would not have delivered him to you.