¹⁸“If the world hates you,^q keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you^r out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^s ²⁰Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^b^t If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^u If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹They will treat you this way because of my name,^v for they do not know the one who sent me.^w ²²If I had not come and spoken to them,^x they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^y ²³Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^z they would not be guilty of sin.^a As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^b ‘They hated me without reason.’^c^c

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶“When the Advocate^d comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^e—the Spirit of truth^f who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^g ²⁷And you also must testify,^h for you have been with me from the beginning.ⁱ

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Footnotes

b John 13:16
c Psalms 35:19; 69:4

Cross references

q Isa 66:5; Jn 7:7; 1 Jn 3:13
rver 16
s Jn 17:14
tSee Jn 13:16
u 2 Ti 3:12
v Isa 66:5; Mt 5:10, 11; 10:22; Lk 6:22; Ac 5:41; 1 Pe 4:14; Rev 2:3
w Jn 16:3
x Eze 2:5; 3:7
y Jn 9:41; Ro 1:20; 2:1
z Jn 5:36
a Jn 9:41
bSee Jn 10:34
c Ps 35:19; 69:4; 109:3
d Jn 14:16
e Jn 14:26; 16:7
fSee Jn 14:17
g 1 Jn 5:7
hSee Lk 24:48; Jn 21:24; 1 Jn 1:2; 4:14
iSee Lk 1:2