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The World's Hatred and the Cost of Discipleship

John 15:18-16:4

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Chapter 15
18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 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, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you: A slave is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no pretext for their sin. 23 The one who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If they had not done the works that I did among them, which no one else did, they had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is so that the word written in their law might be fulfilled: "They hated me without a cause." 26 When the Paraclete comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27 And you also bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
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Chapter 16
1 I have spoken these things to you so that you will not be caused to stumble. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. 3 And they will do these things because they did not know the Father nor me. 4 But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.