John 15:18–27

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.^{* 19}If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. ²⁰Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.^{* 21}But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.^{* 22}If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{* 23}Whoever hates me hates my Father also.^{* 24}If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.^{* 25}It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’^*

²⁶“When the Advocate^l comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf.^{* 27}You also are to testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.^*