John 15:20

New International Reader's Version

Remember what I told you. I said, ‘A slave is not more important than his master.’ (John 13:16) If people hated me and tried to hurt me, they will do the same to you. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

Cross References

Ezekiel 3:7

But the people of Israel do not want to listen to you. That is because they do not want to listen to me. All the Israelites are very stubborn.

Matthew 10:24

“The student is not better than the teacher. A slave is not better than his master.

Mark 10:39

“We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink. And you will go through the baptism I go through.

Luke 2:34

Then Simeon blessed them. He said to Mary, Jesus’ mother, “This child is going to cause many people in Israel to fall and to rise. God has sent him. But many will speak against him.

Luke 6:40

The student is not better than the teacher. But everyone who is completely trained will be like their teacher.

John 10:31

Again the Jews who had challenged him picked up stones to kill him.

John 11:57

But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders. They had commanded anyone who found out where Jesus was staying to report it. Then they could arrest him.

John 13:16

What I’m about to tell you is true. A slave is not more important than his master. And a messenger is not more important than the one who sends him.

John 5:16

Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath day. So the Jewish leaders began to oppose him.

John 7:32

The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering things like this about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.

John 8:51

What I’m about to tell you is true. Whoever obeys my word will never die.”

John 8:52

Then they cried out, “Now we know you are controlled by a demon! Abraham died. So did the prophets. But you say that whoever obeys your word will never die.

John 8:59

When he said this, they picked up stones to kill him. But Jesus hid himself. He slipped away from the temple area.

Acts 14:22

There they helped the believers gain strength. They told them to remain faithful to what they had been taught. “We must go through many hard times to enter God’s kingdom,” they said.

1 Corinthians 4:12

We work hard with our own hands. When others curse us, we bless them. When we are attacked, we put up with it.

2 Corinthians 4:9

Others make us suffer. But God does not desert us. We are knocked down. But we are not knocked out.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

The Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets also forced us to leave. They do not please God. They are enemies of everyone.

2 Timothy 3:12

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be treated badly.

1 Samuel 8:7

The Lord told him, “Listen to everything the people are saying to you. You are not the one they have turned their backs on. I am the one they do not want as their king.