John 15:12-31
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p "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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q Greater love has no one than this, r that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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You are s my friends t if you do what I command you.
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u No longer do I call you servants, for the servant w does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for x all that I have heard from my Father y I have made known to you.
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You did not choose me, but z I chose you and appointed you that you should go and a bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that b whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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These things I command you, c so that you will love one another.
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d "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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e If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because f you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you: g 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, h they will also persecute you. i If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
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But j all these things they will do to you k on account of my name, l because they do not know him who sent me.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, m they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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n Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
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o If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, m they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have p seen and hated both me and my Father.
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But q the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: r 'They hated me without a cause.'
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"But s when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, t he will bear witness about me.
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And u you also will bear witness, v because you have been with me w from the beginning.
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John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
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Romans 5:7 - 8
For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die -
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
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John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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Luke 12:4
I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
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John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.
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John 15:20
Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
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John 13:7
Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.
John 13:12
When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done to you?
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John 3:32
He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.
John 8:26
I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.
John 8:40
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
John 16:13
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
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John 17:26
I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Genesis 18:17
The Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do.
1 Corinthians 2:16
For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:9 - 10
For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
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John 13:18
I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, 'He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.
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2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
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John 15:7
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
John 14:13
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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John 15:12
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
John 15:23 - 24
Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
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1 John 4:5
They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
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John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John 17:16
They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Luke 6:26
Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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John 13:16
Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
Matthew 10:24
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
John 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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John 16:33
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.
1 Corinthians 4:12
And we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure.
2 Corinthians 4:9
Persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind
2 Timothy 3:12
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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Ezekiel 3:7
But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
John 8:51
Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.
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John 16:3
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
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Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake...
Matthew 24:9
Then they will deliver you up to tribulation an...
Revelation 2:3
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing u...
Acts 5:41
Then they left the presence of the council, rej...
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you...
1 Peter 4:16
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him n...
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Acts 3:17
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
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Matthew 11:22
But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.
Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.
Luke 12:47 - 48
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, 'We see,' your guilt remains.
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John 5:23
That all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
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John 3:2
This man came to Jesus by night and said to him...
John 7:31
Yet many of the people believed in him. They sa...
John 9:32
Never since the world began has it been heard t...
Matthew 9:33
And when the demon had been cast out, the mute ...
John 10:32
Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many goo...
John 10:37
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then ...
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John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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John 14:9
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
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John 10:34
Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I said, you are gods'?
John 12:38
So that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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Psalms 35:19
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
Psalms 69:4
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
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Psalms 35:19
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
Psalms 69:4
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
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John 14:16 - 17
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
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1 Corinthians 12:3
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus is accursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.
1 John 5:7
For there are three that testify:
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John 19:35
He who saw it has borne witness - his testimony...
John 21:24
This is the disciple who is bearing witness abo...
1 John 1:2
The life was made manifest, and we have seen it...
1 John 4:14
And we have seen and testify that the Father ha...
3 John 1:12
Demetrius has received a good testimony from ev...
Luke 24:48
You are witnesses of these things.
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Acts 4:20
For we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.
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Luke 1:2
Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us.
Acts 1:21 - 22
So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us.
1 John 2:7
Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
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