John 15:18–27

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸“^aIf the world hates you, ¹you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

¹⁹“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^aI chose you out of the world, ^bbecause of this the world hates you.

²⁰“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^aA slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^bthey will also persecute you; if they ^ckept My word, they will keep yours also.

²¹“But all these things they will do to you ^afor My name’s sake, ^bbecause they do not know the One who sent Me.

²²“^aIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ¹sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

²³“He who hates Me hates My Father also.

²⁴“^aIf I had not done among them ^bthe works which no one else did, they would not have ¹sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

²⁵“But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their ^aLaw, ‘^bThey hated Me without a cause.’

²⁶“When the ^1aHelper comes, ^bwhom I will send to you from the Father, that is ^cthe Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^dHe will testify about Me,

²⁷¹and ^ayou will testify also, because you have been with Me ^bfrom the beginning.