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"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.
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If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.
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Remember what I told you: "Slaves are not greater than their master.' If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.
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But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.
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They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.
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Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
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They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father.
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This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: "They hated me for no reason at all.'
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