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 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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