Weymouth New Testament WNT
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18 If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
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“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates 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 Bear in mind what I said to you, `A servant is not superior to his master.' If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
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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 But they will inflict all this suffering upon you on account of your bearing my name--because they do not know Him 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 had not come and spoken to them, they would have had no sin; but as the case stands they are without excuse for their sin.
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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 He who hates me hates my Father also.
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Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
24 If I had not done among them, as I have, such miracles as no one else ever did, they would have had no sin; but they have in fact seen and also hated 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 But this has been so, in order that the saying may be fulfilled which stands written in their Law, `They have hated me without any 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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