John 15:20

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Remember how I told you that servants are not greater than their master. So if people ill-treat me, they will ill-treat you. If they do what I say, they will do what you say.

Cross References

2 Timothy 3:12

Anyone who belongs to Christ Jesus and wants to live right will have trouble from others.

John 13:16

I tell you for certain that servants are not greater than their master, and messengers are not greater than the one who sent them.

Matthew 10:24

Disciples are not better than their teacher, and slaves are not better than their master.

Ezekiel 3:7

But the people of Israel will refuse to listen, because they have refused to listen to me. All of them are stubborn and hard-headed,

2 Corinthians 4:9

In times of trouble, God is with us, and when we are knocked down, we get up again.

1 Corinthians 4:12

We work hard with our own hands, and when people abuse us, we wish them well. When we suffer, we are patient.

John 8:51

I tell you for certain that if you obey my words, you will never die.”

Luke 6:40

Are students better than their teacher? But when they are fully trained, they will be like their teacher.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

Those Jews killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and they even chased us away. God doesn't like what they do and neither does anyone else.

John 10:31

Once again the Jewish leaders picked up stones in order to kill Jesus.

John 11:57

The chief priests and the Pharisees told the people to let them know if any of them saw Jesus. That is how they hoped to arrest him.

John 8:59

The people picked up stones to kill Jesus, but he hid and left the temple.

John 7:32

When the Pharisees heard the crowd arguing about Jesus, they got together with the chief priests and sent some temple police to arrest him.

John 5:16

They started making a lot of trouble for Jesus because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

Luke 2:34

Then he blessed them and told Mary, “This child of yours will cause many people in Israel to fall and others to stand. The child will be like a warning sign. Many people will reject him,

1 Samuel 8:7

The LORD answered: Samuel, do everything they want you to do. I am really the one they have rejected as their king.

John 8:52

Then the people said, “Now we are sure that you have a demon. Abraham is dead, and so are the prophets. How can you say that no one who obeys your words will ever die?

Acts 14:22

They encouraged the followers and begged them to remain faithful. They told them, “We have to suffer a lot before we can get into God's kingdom.”

Mark 10:39

“Yes, we are!” James and John answered. Then Jesus replied, “You certainly will drink from the cup from which I must drink. And you will be baptized just as I must!