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
because 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, the 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. It 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 beginning."
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