John 15:22

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

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  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • Rom 1:20 : 20 for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead -- to their being inexcusable;
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, `Thou wouldst have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
  • John 12:48 : 48 `He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,
  • Ezek 2:5 : 5 and they -- whether they hear, or whether they forbear, for a rebellious house they `are' -- have known that a prophet hath been in their midst.
  • Ezek 33:31-33 : 31 And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going. 32 And lo, thou `art' to them as a singer of doting loves, A pleasant voice, and playing well on an instrument, And they have heard thy words, and they are not doing them. 33 And in its coming in -- lo, it hath come, And they have known that a prophet hath been in their midst!'
  • Luke 12:46 : 46 the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for `him', and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.
  • John 3:18-21 : 18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; 21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
  • Rom 2:1 : 1 Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man -- every one who is judging -- for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 and to God `are' thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place, 15 because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost; 16 to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
  • Heb 6:4-8 : 4 for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, 5 and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, 6 and having fallen away, again to renew `them' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. 7 For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, 8 and that which is bearing thorns and briers `is' disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end `is' for burning;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 82%

    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.

  • 41Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

  • John 16:8-10
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    8and having come, He will convict the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment;

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

    10and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

  • 73%

    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.

    20`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;

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

  • 71%

    13`And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

    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 16:3-4
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    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;

  • 42Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

  • 46Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

  • 70%

    29`And now I have said `it' to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

    30I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;

  • 25`Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,

  • John 8:19-21
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    19They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

    20These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

    21therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

  • 7if ye had known me, my Father also ye would have known, and from this time ye have known Him, and have seen Him.'

  • 12that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'

  • John 5:42-43
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    42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

    43`I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;

  • 8if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

  • 24I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.'

  • 68%

    28I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'

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  • John 17:7-8
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    7now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,

    8because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

  • John 3:19-20
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    19`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

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  • 39And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

  • 10if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

  • 1 John 3:5-6
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    5and ye have known that he was manifested that our sins he may take away, and sin is not in him;

    6every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

  • 40and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

  • 46I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;

  • 25`These things in similitudes I have spoken to you, but there cometh an hour when no more in similitudes will I speak to you, but freely of the Father, will tell you.

  • 38and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

  • John 8:26-27
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    67%

    26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

    27They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

  • 55and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

  • 13`Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

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

  • 7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

  • 30they answered and said to him, `If he were not an evil doer, we had not delivered him to thee.'