John 16:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • John 15:21 : 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
  • 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 8:55 : 55 Yet 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.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows 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 who hates me hates my Father also.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life, that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive 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 condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 Although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:20-25
    6 verses
    85%

    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.

    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 16:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • John 8:19
    79%

    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 16:4
    79%

    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 17:25
    77%

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

  • John 8:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

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

    28Then Jesus said to them, When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.

  • John 14:7
    74%

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

  • John 15:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • John 17:14
    73%

    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.

  • John 14:20
    73%

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

  • John 16:16
    73%

    16In a little while you will not see me: and again, in a little while, you will see me, because I go to the Father.

  • John 16:32
    73%

    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.

  • John 16:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

    25I have spoken these things to you in proverbs: but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but I will show you plainly about the Father.

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

    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%

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

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

  • John 8:55
    73%

    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.

  • John 7:7
    72%

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

  • John 8:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

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

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

  • Luke 21:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • John 16:6
    72%

    6But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

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

  • John 8:43
    71%

    43Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

  • John 14:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

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

    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

  • John 12:16
    71%

    16These things his disciples did not understand at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

  • John 13:17
    71%

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

  • Mark 13:12
    71%

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

  • John 15:15
    71%

    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 17:7
    71%

    7Now they have known that all things whatsoever you have given me are from you.

  • John 17:16
    71%

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

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

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

  • John 16:19
    71%

    19Now Jesus knew they wanted to ask him and said to them, 'Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, A little while, and you will not see me: and again, a little while, and you will see me?'

  • Acts 13:27
    70%

    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.