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"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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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, therefore the world hates you.
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Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
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But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version)
