The Hatred of the World

^18 (A)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ^19 (B)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ^(C)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: ^(D)‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, ^(E)they will also persecute you. ^(F)If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. ²¹ But ^(G)all these things they will do to you ^(H)on account of my name, ^(I)because they do not know him who sent me.

¹² For ^(A)we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against ^(B)the rulers, against the authorities, against ^(C)the cosmic powers over ^(D)this present darkness, against ^(E)the spiritual forces of evil ^(F)in the heavenly places.

² But we have renounced ^(A)disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice^[a] cunning or ^(B)to tamper with God's word, but ^(C)by the open statement of the truth ^(D)we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. ³ And even ^(E)if our gospel is veiled, ^(F)it is veiled to ^(G)those who are perishing. ⁴ In their case ^(H)the god of this world ^(I)has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing ^(J)the light of ^(K)the gospel of the glory of Christ, ^(L)who is the image of God. ⁵ For what ^(M)we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ^(N)ourselves as your servants^[b] for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For God, who said, ^(O)“Let light shine out of darkness,” ^(P)has shone in our hearts to give ^(Q)the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹³ He ^(A)has delivered us from ^(B)the domain of darkness and transferred us to ^(C)the kingdom of ^(D)his beloved Son,