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These things I command you, that ye love one another.(John 15:17)
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.(John 15:18)
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.(John 15:19)
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.
But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.(John 15:21)
If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.(John 15:22)
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.(John 15:23)

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John 15:20 - Cross Reference

And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. (1 Samuel 8:7)
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. (John 8:59)
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him. (John 11:57)
But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted. (Ezekiel 3:7)
And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against; (Luke 2:34)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. (John 8:51)
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? (Isaiah 53:1)
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: (Acts 7:52)
Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: (1 Thessalonians 2:15)
For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, (Acts 4:27)
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. (John 10:31)
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; (2 Corinthians 4:9)
The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. (Luke 6:40)
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. (Matthew 10:24)
The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. (John 7:32)
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day. (John 5:16)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. (John 13:16)
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. (2 Timothy 3:12)
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: (1 Corinthians 4:12)