John 15:18-25

NSB(i) 18 »If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 »If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world. 20 »Remember the word I said to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours also. 21 »They will do all these things to you for my name’s sake. It is because they do not know the one that sent me. 22 »If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. Now they have no excuse for their sin! 23 »He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 »If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would have no sin. They have seen and hated both my Father and me. 25 »This took place that the word written in the Law may be fulfilled: They hated me without a cause.