John 15:15-27

English Standard Version

^15 (A)No longer do I call you servants,^[a] for the servant ^(B)does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for ^(C)all that I have heard from my Father ^(D)I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but ^(E)I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ^(F)bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ^(G)whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ¹⁷ These things I command you, ^(H)so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

^18 (I)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19 (J)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(K)you 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: ^(L)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(M)they will also persecute you. ^(N)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But ^(O)all these things they will do to you ^(P)on account of my name, ^(Q)because they do not know him who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(R)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[b] but now they have no excuse for their sin. ^23 (S)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ^24 (T)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(U)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(V)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But ^(W)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(X)‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶ “But ^(Y)when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^(Z)he will bear witness about me. ²⁷ And ^(AA)you also will bear witness, ^(AB)because you have been with me ^(AC)from the beginning.