John 16:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • John 15:21 : 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 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
  • 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 8:55 : 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.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
  • 1 John 4:8 : 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
  • 1 John 5:20 : 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we 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 Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
  • John 15:23 : 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.
  • John 17:3 : 3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
  • 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.
  • 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,
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 although I was before a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:20-25
    6 verses
    85%

    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.

    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.

    24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

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

  • John 16:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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.

  • John 8:19
    79%

    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 16:4
    79%

    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 17:25
    77%

    25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

  • John 5:42
    74%

    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

  • John 8:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

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

    28 Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • John 14:7
    74%

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

  • John 15:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • John 17:14
    73%

    14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • John 14:20
    73%

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

  • John 16:16
    73%

    16 A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

  • John 16:32
    73%

    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.

  • John 16:25-27
    3 verses
    73%

    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.

    26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I don't say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you,

    27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

  • John 16:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 about sin, because they don't believe in me;

    10 about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;

  • John 8:55
    73%

    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.

  • John 7:7
    72%

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

  • John 8:37-38
    2 verses
    72%

    37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

    38 I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

  • Luke 21:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

    17 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

  • John 16:6
    72%

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

  • John 14:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

    25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.

  • John 8:43
    71%

    43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

  • John 14:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

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

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

  • John 12:16
    71%

    16 His disciples didn't understand these things 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%

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

  • Mark 13:12
    71%

    12 "Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • John 15:15
    71%

    15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

  • John 17:7
    71%

    7 Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,

  • John 5:38
    71%

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

  • John 17:16
    71%

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

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

    17 The way of peace, they haven't known."

  • John 16:19
    71%

    19 Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

  • Acts 13:27
    70%

    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 5:16
    70%

    16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.