¹⁴ I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.^(A)

¹⁶ They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.^{(A) 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. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Slaves are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.^{(B) 21} But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.^(C)

¹⁹ We know that we are God’s children and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.^{(A) 20} And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true;^[a] and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.^(B)

²³ He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are from this world, I am not from this world.^(A)

⁵ They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.^(A)

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.^(A)

⁸ In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.^(A)

¹² We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.