John 15:20 - Revised Standard Version CI

²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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 your's also.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Remember that I told you, A servant is not greater than his master [is not superior to him]. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word and obeyed My teachings, they will also keep and obey yours.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Remember what I told you, ‘Servants aren’t greater than their master.’ If the world harassed me, it will harass you too. If it kept my word, it will also keep yours.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Remember my saying that I told you: The servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

John 15:20 Cross References

Ezekiel 3:7

But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they are not willing to listen to me; because all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stubborn heart.

Matthew 10:24

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

Mark 10:39

And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;

Luke 2:34

and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against

Luke 6:40

A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one when he is fully taught will be like his teacher.

John 10:31

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

John 11:57

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.

John 13:16

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.

John 5:16

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did this on the sabbath.

John 7:32

The Pharisees heard the crowd thus muttering about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

John 8:51

Truly, truly, I say to you, if any one keeps my word, he will never see death.”

John 8:52

The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If any one keeps my word, he will never taste death.’

John 8:59

So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

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 men

2 Timothy 3:12

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

1 Samuel 8:7

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.