John 15:18–27

¹⁸If the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; ¹⁹if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you. ²⁰‘Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep; ²¹but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me; ²²if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

²³‘He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; ²⁴if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; ²⁵but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated me without a cause.

²⁶‘And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me; ²⁷and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

Chapter 16