John 15:18-16:4

New American Standard Bible

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸ “^(A)If the world hates you, ^[a]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(B)I chose you out of the world, ^(C)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(D)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(E)they will persecute you as well; if they ^(F)followed My word, they will follow yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you ^(G)on account of My name, ^(H)because they do not know the One who sent Me. ^22 (I)If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^[b]sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ The one who hates Me hates My Father also. ^24 (J)If I had not done among them ^(K)the works which no one else did, they would not have ^[c]sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. ²⁵ But this has happened so that the word that is written in their ^(L)Law will be fulfilled: ‘^(M)They hated Me for no reason.’

²⁶ “When the ^[d](N)Helper comes, ^(O)whom I will send to you from the Father, namely, ^(P)the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, ^(Q)He will testify about Me, ²⁷ and ^[e](R)you are testifying as well, because you have been with Me ^(S)from the beginning.

Jesus’ Warning

16 “^(T)These things I have spoken to you so that you will not ^[f]be ^(U)led into sin. ² They will ^[g](V)ban you from the synagogue, yet ^(W)an hour is coming for everyone ^(X)who kills you to think that he is offering a ^[h]service to God. ³ These things they will do ^(Y)because they have not known the Father nor Me. ⁴ But these things I have spoken to you, ^(Z)so that when their hour comes, you ^[i]may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you ^(AA)at the beginning, because I was with you.