John 15:17-27

17 "This ¹I command you, that you love one another.

Disciples' Relation to the World

18 "²If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

19 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but ³I chose you out of the world, ⁴because of this * the world hates you.

20 "Remember the word that I said to you, '⁵A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, ⁶they will also persecute you; if they ⁷kept My word, they will keep yours also.

21 "But all these things they will do to you ⁸for My name's sake, ⁹because they do not know the One who sent Me.

22 "¹⁰If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 "He who hates Me hates My Father also.

24 "¹¹If I had not done among them ¹²the 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.

25 "But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their ¹³Law, '¹⁴THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'

26 "When the ¹⁵Helper comes, ¹⁶whom I will send to you from the Father, that is ¹⁷the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, ¹⁸He will testify about Me,

27 and ¹⁹you will testify also, because you have been with Me ²⁰from the beginning.

Cross References

• 1. John 15:12
• 2. John 7:7; 1 John 3:13
• 3. John 15:16
• 4. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; John 17:14
• 5. Matthew 10:24; John 13:16
• 6. 1 Corinthians 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:9; 2 Timothy 3:12
• 7. John 8:51
• 8. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; Mark 13:13; Luke 21:12, 17; Acts 4:17; Acts 5:41; Acts 9:14; Acts 26:9; 1 Peter 4:14; Revelation 2:3
• 9. John 8:19, 55; John 16:3; John 17:25; Acts 3:17; 1 John 3:1
• 10. John 9:41; John 15:24
• 11. John 9:41; John 15:21
• 12. John 5:36; John 10:37
• 13. John 10:34
• 14. Psalms 35:19; Psalms 69:4
• 15. John 14:16
• 16. John 14:26
• 17. John 14:17
• 18. 1 John 5:7
• 19. Luke 24:48; John 19:35; John 21:24; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 4:14
• 20. Luke 1:2

Footnotes

• [a]. Or (imperative) "know that"
• [b]. I.e. guilt
• [c]. I.e. guilt
• [d]. Gr "Paracletos", one called alongside to help; or "Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor"
• [e]. Or (imperative) "and bear witness"