John 15:18-27 NAS
If the world hates
you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If
you were of the world, the world would love its own; but you are not of
the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world
hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not
greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also
persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But
all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do
not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them,
they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them
the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they
have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. But they have
done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY
HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'
"When the Helper
comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit
of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me, and you will
testify also, because you have been with Me from the begining.
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