John 15:18–27

The Relationship of Believers to the World

^18w“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ^19xIf you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^ybecause you 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, ^z‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. ^aIf they kept My word, they will keep yours also. ²¹But ^ball these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. ^22cIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, ^dbut now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23eHe who hates Me hates My Father also. ²⁴If I had not done among them ^fthe works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have ^gseen and also hated both Me and My Father. ²⁵But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ^h‘They hated Me without a cause.’

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

²⁶ⁱ“But when the ³Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ^jHe will testify of Me. ²⁷And ^kyou also will bear witness, because ^lyou have been with Me from the beginning.