John 15:20

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

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  • 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,
  • Ezek 3:7 : 7 but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.
  • Matt 10:24 : 24 `A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;
  • 2 Cor 4:9 : 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men `are' contrary,
  • John 13:16 : 16 verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;
  • Isa 53:1-3 : 1 Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed? 2 Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him. 3 He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • 1 Cor 4:12 : 12 and labour, working with `our' own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
  • 1 Sam 8:7 : 7 And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.
  • Acts 4:27-30 : 27 for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass. 29 `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word, 30 in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'
  • Acts 7:52-60 : 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become, 53 who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep `it'.' 54 And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him; 55 and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 56 and he said, `Lo, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.' 57 And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him, 58 and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning `him' -- and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul -- 59 and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;' 60 and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.
  • Luke 2:34 : 34 and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this `one' is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against --
  • Luke 6:40 : 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one perfected shall be as his teacher.
  • John 5:16 : 16 and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.
  • John 7:32 : 32 The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers that they may take him;
  • John 8:51 : 51 verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see -- to the age.'
  • John 8:59 : 59 they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
  • John 10:31 : 31 Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;
  • John 11:57 : 57 and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew `it', so that they may seize him.

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  • John 15:14-19
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    14ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

    15no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

    16`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

    17`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

    18if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

    19if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

  • John 15:21
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    21but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

  • John 13:15-17
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    15`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

    16verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

    17if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

  • Matt 10:22-25
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    22and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

    23`And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

    24`A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

    25sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

  • John 16:1-4
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    1`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled,

    2out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;

    3and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

    4`But these things I have spoken to you, that when the hour may come, ye may remember them, that I said `them' to you, and these things to you from the beginning I did not say, because I was with you;

  • Matt 5:10-12
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    10`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

    11`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

    12rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward `is' great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

  • John 14:15
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    15`If ye love me, my commands keep,

  • John 14:24-25
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    24he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

    25`These things I have spoken to you, remaining with you,

  • John 15:7-12
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    7if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

    8`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

    9According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

    10if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

    11these things I have spoken to you, that my joy in you may remain, and your joy may be full.

    12`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • Mark 13:9
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    9`And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;

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    26if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.

  • Luke 21:17
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    17and ye shall be hated by all because of my name --

  • John 15:23-25
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    23`He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

    24if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

    25but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.

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    35in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

  • John 14:28
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    28ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

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    12and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

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    16`Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

  • Matt 10:17-18
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    17And, take ye heed of men, for they will give you up to sanhedrims, and in their synagogues they will scourge you,

    18and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

  • John 15:4
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    4remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

  • John 16:32-33
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    32and now it hath come, that ye may be scattered, each to his own things, and me ye may leave alone, and I am not alone, because the Father is with me;

    33these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'

  • John 15:27
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    27and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

  • John 14:20
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    20in that day ye shall know that I `am' in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you;

  • Luke 10:16
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    16`He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

  • Luke 22:28
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    28`And ye -- ye are those who have remained with me in my temptations,