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18 "If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me.
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“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 If you lived on the world's terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God's terms and no longer on the world's terms, the world is going to hate you.
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If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
20 "When that happens, remember this: Servants don't get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them.
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Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
21 "They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don't know the One who sent me.
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They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.
22 If I hadn't come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn't be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse.
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If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Hate me, hate my Father - it's all the same.
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Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
24 If I hadn't done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn't be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father.
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If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.
25 Interesting - they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, 'They hated me for no good reason.'
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But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
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