John 15:20
Good News Translation
Remember what I told you: 'Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.

New Revised Standard Version
Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

Contemporary English Version
Remember how I told you that servants are not greater than their master. So if people mistreat me, they will mistreat you. If they do what I say, they will do what you say.

New American Bible
Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember my word that I said to you: The servant 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 yours also.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Remember my word that I said to you: The servant 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 yours also.

word.

John 5:16 Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the rulers and Pharisees sent ministers to apprehend him.

John 8:59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

John 10:31 The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

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John 13:16 Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

Matthew 10:24 The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.

Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

Luke 6:40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

Acts 4:27-30 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, . . .

Acts 7:52-60 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One: of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men;

if they have kept.

1 Samuel 8:7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee. For they have not rejected thee, but me, that I should not reign over them.

Isaiah 53:1-3 Who a hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? . . .

Ezekiel 3:7 But the house of Israel will not hearken to thee: because they will not hearken to me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.

Context
The Hatred of the World
19If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20Remember my word that I said to you: The servant 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 yours also. 21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.…
Cross References
Matthew 10:24
The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord.

Luke 6:40
The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.

John 8:51
Amen, amen, I say to you: If any man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever.

John 8:52
The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets: and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever.

John 13:16
Amen, amen, I say to you: The servant is not greater than his lord: neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

Acts 14:22
Confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them to continue in the faith: and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 4:12
And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.

2 Corinthians 4:9
We suffer persecution: but are not forsaken. We are cast down: but we perish not.

2 Timothy 3:12
And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

John 15:19
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