John 15:18-25

Williams(i) 18 If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you. 20 Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too. 21 They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me. 22 "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever continues to hate me continues to hate my Father too. 24 If I had not done things among them that no one else has ever done, they would not be guilty of sin. But now the fact is, they have seen and even hated both my Father and me. 25 But this is so that the saying written in their law may be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a cause.'