John 15:15-25

15 ¹No longer do I call you servants, ^[a] for the servant^{[b] 2}does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ³all that I have heard from my Father ⁴I have made known to you.

16 You did not choose me, but ⁵I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ⁶bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ⁷whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ⁸so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 ⁹“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 ¹⁰If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ¹¹you 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: ¹²‘A servant is not greater than his master. ’ If they persecuted me, ¹³they will also persecute you. ¹⁴If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21 But ¹⁵all these things they will do to you ¹⁶on account of my name, ¹⁷because they do not know him who sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, ¹⁸they would not have been guilty of sin, ^[c] but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 ¹⁹Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

24 ²⁰If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ²¹they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ²²seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But ²³the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ²⁴‘They hated me without a cause. ’