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18 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
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“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
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, because of this 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 "Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep 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 all these things they will do to you for My name's sake, because they do not 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 had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no 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 the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
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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 they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'
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But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
26 "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,
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“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.
27 and you will testify also, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
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