John 15:18–27

¹⁸“If the world hates you, realize that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹If you had anything in common with the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But you don’t have anything in common with the world. I chose you from the world, and that’s why the world hates you. ²⁰Remember what I told you: ‘A servant isn’t greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they did what I said, they will also do what you say. ²¹Indeed, they will do all this to you because you are committed to me, since they don’t know the one who sent me. ²²If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³The person who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴If I hadn’t done among them what no one else has done, they wouldn’t have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵In this way what is written in their Scriptures has come true: ‘They hate me for no reason.’ 

²⁶“The helper whom I will send to you from the Father will come. This helper, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, will declare the truth about me. ²⁷You will declare the truth, too, because you have been with me from the beginning.”