John 15:20 “Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his…”

John 15:20

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

Remember the word that I said unto 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 keep yours also.

Geneva Bible 1599

Remember the word that I said vnto you, The seruant is not greater then his master. If they haue persecuted me, they will persecute you also: if they haue kept my worde, they will also keepe yours.

Darby Translation

Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

Young's Literal Translation

'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;

Bible in Basic English

Keep in mind the words I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they were cruel to me, they will be cruel to you; if they kept my words, they will keep yours.

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Cross references

“word”

John 13:16 Matthew 10:24 Luke 6:40 Acts 4:27–30 John 10:31 1 Thessalonians 2:15

John 13:16 · BSB

Truly, truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Matthew 10:24 · BSB

A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

Luke 6:40 · BSB

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Acts 4:27–30 · BSB

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

John 10:31 · BSB

At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

1 Thessalonians 2:15 · BSB

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,

“if they have kept”

Ezekiel 3:7 Isaiah 53:1–3 1 Samuel 8:7

Ezekiel 3:7 · BSB

But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.

Isaiah 53:1–3 · BSB

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

1 Samuel 8:7 · BSB

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.

Also

2 Timothy 3:12 1 Corinthians 4:12 2 Corinthians 4:9 John 8:51

2 Timothy 3:12 · BSB

Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

1 Corinthians 4:12 · BSB

We work hard with our own hands. When we are vilified, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

2 Corinthians 4:9 · BSB

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

John 8:51 · BSB

Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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