John 15:18-27

The Hatred of the World

18 ¹"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 ²If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ³you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you: ⁴'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, ⁵they will also persecute you. ⁶If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21 But ⁷all these things they will do to you ⁸on account of my name, ⁹because they do not know him who sent me.

22 If I had not come and spoken to them, ¹⁰they would not have been guilty of sin,^[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin.

23 ¹¹Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

24 ¹²If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ¹³they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ¹⁴seen and hated both me and my Father.

25 But ¹⁵the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ¹⁶'They hated me without a cause.'

26 "But ¹⁷when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ¹⁸he will bear witness about me.

27 And ¹⁹you also will bear witness, ²⁰because you have been with me ²¹from the beginning.

Cross References

• 1. John 7:7; 1 John 3:13; [ver. 23, 24]
• 2. [1 John 4:5]
• 3. John 17:14, 16; [Luke 6:26; Galatians 1:4; James 4:4]
• 4. John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; [ver. 15]
• 5. John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:12
• 6. [Ezekiel 3:7]; See John 8:51
• 7. John 16:3
• 8. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; Revelation 2:3; [Acts 5:41; 1 Peter 4:14, 16]
• 9. See Acts 3:17
• 10. [Matthew 11:22, 24; Luke 12:47, 48]; See John 9:41
• 11. See John 5:23
• 12. John 3:2; John 7:31; John 9:32; Matthew 9:33; [John 10:32, 37]
• 13. [See ver. 22 above]
• 14. See John 14:9
• 15. See John 10:34; John 12:38
• 16. Cited from Ps. 35:19 or 69:4
• 17. See John 14:16, 17, 26
• 18. 1 Corinthians 12:3; 1 John 5:7
• 19. John 19:35; John 21:24; 1 John 1:2; 1 John 4:14; [3 John 12]; See Luke 24:48
• 20. See Acts 4:20
• 21. [Luke 1:2; Acts 1:21, 22; 1 John 2:7]

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24