New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
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18 "If the world hates you, be aware that it 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 belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore 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, "Servants are not greater than their master.' If they persecuted me, they will 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 they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him 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.
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