Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’† If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 15:20 in context
John 15:17–23
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“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
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If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’† If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
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But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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He who hates me, hates my Father also.
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