If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
And the LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
Walk the Square · a single-voice walk of this pair around the Clowney square13:39
Significance
Second first-class condition (15:20) has OT parallels linking reception of prophet's message with people's stance toward God himself. "On account of my name" (15:21) reflects OT terminology for God and his great name, though here essentially synonymous with "me."
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Reference Type
Echo
Connection Method(s)
Analogy
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