John 15:22

World English Bible (2000)

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had 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 since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
  • John 12:48 : 48 He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
  • Ezek 2:5 : 5 They, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house), yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
  • Ezek 33:31-33 : 31 They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. 32 Behold, 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 don't do them. 33 When this comes to pass, (behold, it comes), then shall they know that a prophet has been among them.
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
  • John 3:18-21 : 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame. 7 For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God; 8 but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

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  • John 15:18-21
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    18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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    20 Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

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

  • John 17:13-14
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    13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

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  • John 16:3-4
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    42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

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

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    29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.

    30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

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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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    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."

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

  • Mark 4:12
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    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

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

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    19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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    5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

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    40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

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    25 I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

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

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    26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

    27 They didn't understand that he spoke to them about the Father.

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    55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

  • Matt 13:13
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    25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

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    7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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    30 They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."