John 15:21

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Matt 10:22 : 22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
  • John 8:19 : 19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
  • John 8:54 : 54 Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
  • Matt 10:39 : 39 He who seeks 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 Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, 'Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is those who shall be disappointed.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:18 : 18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
  • Acts 3:17 : 17 "Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
  • Acts 5:41 : 41 They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus' 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 along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
  • Acts 28:25-27 : 25 When they didn't agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers, 26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive. 27 For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.'
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
  • 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake; 6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who 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 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
  • 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 But because you are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. 14 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
  • 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
  • Rev 2:3 : 3 You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.

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    1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

    2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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

    4 But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

  • John 15:17-20
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    17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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

    19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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  • Luke 21:16-17
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    16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

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  • Luke 21:12-13
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    12 But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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  • Matt 24:9
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    9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

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

    23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.

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    25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

  • John 17:25-26
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    25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

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  • Mark 13:13
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    13 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

  • Matt 10:22
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    11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  • John 8:19
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    19 They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • John 17:7-8
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  • Mark 13:9
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    9 But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

  • John 5:42-43
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    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

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  • John 13:16-17
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    16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

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  • Matt 17:12
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    12 but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn't recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them."

  • Matt 10:18
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    18 Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

  • John 10:25
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    25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my Father's name, these testify about me.

  • Acts 13:27
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    27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

  • John 5:38
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    38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

  • John 14:25
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    25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

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    35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

  • John 14:20
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    20 In 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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    21 that they may all be one; even 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 sent me.

  • John 16:26
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  • John 7:7
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  • John 16:32
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    32 Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

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