John 15:25

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Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’

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  • Ps 109:3 : 3 They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.
  • Ps 35:19 : 19 Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!
  • Ps 69:4 : 4 Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!
  • John 10:34 : 34 Jesus answered,“Is it not written in your law,‘I said, you are gods’?
  • 2 Cor 11:7 : 7 Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you could be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you free of charge?
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 Jesus’ Final Commission Then he said to them,“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
  • Ps 7:4 : 4 or have wronged my ally, or helped his lawless enemy,
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
  • 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 and we did not eat anyone’s food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.
  • Rev 21:6 : 6 He also said to me,“It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water free of charge from the spring of the water of life.
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say,“Come!” And let the one who hears say:“Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge.
  • John 19:36 : 36 For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled,“Not a bone of his will be broken.”
  • Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
  • Rom 3:24 : 24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
  • Matt 10:8 : 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

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    17This I command you– to love one another.

    18The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

    19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

    20Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

    21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

    22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

    24If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

  • John 7:7
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    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

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    13But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

    14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

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    1“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

    2They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

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    3They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.

  • John 15:26
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    26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father– the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father– he will testify about me,

  • Luke 21:17
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    17You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

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    16Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

  • Ps 139:21-22
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    21O LORD, do I not hate those who hate you, and despise those who oppose you?

    22I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

  • Matt 12:17
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    17This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

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    43Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’

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    5They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

  • John 15:11-12
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    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • John 5:42
    70%

    42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • John 5:38-39
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    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

    39You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

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    3because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

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    37For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me,‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”

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    7All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.

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    54How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

    55At that moment Jesus said to the crowd,“Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.

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    9Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

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    69%

    19I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

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    69%

    27“But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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    23I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

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    69%

    19Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.

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    4Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!

  • John 5:36
    69%

    36“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete– the deeds I am now doing– testify about me that the Father has sent me.

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    19Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!

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    27But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”

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    25Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

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    49Day after day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me. But this has happened so that the scriptures would be fulfilled.”

  • John 16:27
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    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

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    11“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

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    25“I have spoken these things while staying with you.

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    12Indeed, it is not an enemy who insults me, or else I could bear it; it is not one who hates me who arrogantly taunts me, or else I could hide from him.