John 15:21

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my name, for they do not know him who sent me.

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

In Context

20Remember what I said to you – ‘A servant is not greater than their master.’ If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have laid my message to heart, they will lay yours to heart also.

22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin to answer for; but as it is, they have no excuse for their sin.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:18and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake so that you may witness for me before them and the nations.

Matthew 10:39The person who has found their life will lose it, while the person who, for my sake, has lost their life will find it.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they expel you from among them, and insult you, and reject your name as an evil thing – because of the Son of Man.

John 8:54“If I do honor to myself,” answered Jesus, “such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who does me honor – and you say that he is your God;

Acts 3:17And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.

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 →

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