John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23He who hates me hates my Father also.
Cross References
Ezekiel 33:31And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
John 3:18He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 12:48He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings, has that which judges him: the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day.
Acts 17:30Indeed therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands for all men everywhere to repent.
Romans 2:1Therefore, O man, thou are without excuse, every man who judges, for in what thou judge the other man, thou condemn thyself, for the man who judges is doing the same things.
Hebrews 6:4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and who tasted of the heavenly gift, and who became partakers of Holy Spirit,
Matthew Henry on John 15:19-26
Hatred and Persecution Foretold. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you… Read the whole commentary →