John 15:16–27

¹⁶You did not choose me, but ^zI chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^abear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^bwhatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷These things I command you, ^cso that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18d“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19eIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^fyou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you: ^g‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^hthey will also persecute you. ⁱIf they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹But ^jall these things they will do to you ^kon account of my name, ^lbecause they do not know him who sent me. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, ^mthey would not have been guilty of sin,³ but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ⁿWhoever hates me hates my Father also. ^24oIf I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^mthey would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^pseen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But ^qthe word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^r‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶“But ^swhen the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^the will bear witness about me. ²⁷And ^uyou also will bear witness, ^vbecause you have been with me ^wfrom the beginning.