John 16:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • John 15:21 : 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
  • John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
  • John 8:19 : 19 Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”
  • John 8:55 : 55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”
  • John 15:23 : 23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing, 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 6 For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. 12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:20-25
    6 verses
    85%

    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.

    25Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’

  • John 16:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • John 8:19
    79%

    19Then they began asking him,“Who is your father?” Jesus answered,“You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”

  • John 16:4
    79%

    4But I have told you these things so that when their time comes, you will remember that I told you about them.“I did not tell you these things from the beginning because I was with you.

  • John 17:25
    77%

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

  • John 5:42
    74%

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

  • John 8:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

  • John 14:7
    74%

    7If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him.”

  • John 15:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17This I command you– to love one another.

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

  • John 17:14
    73%

    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.

  • John 14:20
    73%

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

  • John 16:16
    73%

    16In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

  • John 16:32
    73%

    32Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

  • John 16:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

    25“I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

    26At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

    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%

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

    10concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

  • John 8:55
    73%

    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • John 7:7
    72%

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

  • John 8:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

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

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

  • Luke 21:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

    17You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

  • John 16:6
    72%

    6Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

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

  • John 8:43
    71%

    43Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

  • John 14:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

    30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 12:16
    71%

    16(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

  • John 13:17
    71%

    17If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

  • Mark 13:12
    71%

    12Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

  • John 15:15
    71%

    15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

  • John 17:7
    71%

    7Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

  • John 5:38
    71%

    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • John 17:16
    71%

    16They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

  • John 17:23
    71%

    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.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

    17and the way of peace they have not known.”

  • John 16:19
    71%

    19Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them,“Are you asking each other about this– that I said,‘In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me’?

  • Acts 13:27
    70%

    27For the people who live in Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize him, and they fulfilled the sayings of the prophets that are read every Sabbath by condemning him.

  • John 5:16
    70%

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