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17 This is my command: Love each other.
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This is my command: Love each other.
18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
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“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it 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 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.
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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 will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected 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 They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. 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 Anyone who hates me also hates my Father.
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Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
24 If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate 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 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures : ‘They hated me without cause.’
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But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’
26 “But I will send you the Advocate —the Spirit of truth. He will come to you from the Father and will testify all 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 must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.
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And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
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