Psalm 29

A psalm of David.

The World Hates the Disciples

¹⁸ “If the world hates you,^(A) keep in mind that it hated me first. ¹⁹ 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^(B) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.^{(C) 20} Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’^[a](D) If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.^(E) If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. ²¹ They will treat you this way because of my name,^(F) for they do not know the one who sent me.^{(G) 22} If I had not come and spoken to them,^(H) they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.^{(I) 23} Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. ²⁴ If I had not done among them the works no one else did,^(J) they would not be guilty of sin.^(K) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:^(L) ‘They hated me without reason.’^[b](M)

The Work of the Holy Spirit

²⁶ “When the Advocate^(N) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father^(O)—the Spirit of truth^(P) who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.^{(Q) 27} And you also must testify,^(R) for you have been with me from the beginning.^(S)

16 “All this^(T) I have told you so that you will not fall away.^{(U) 2} They will put you out of the synagogue;^(V) in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.^{(W) 3} They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.^{(X) 4} I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember^(Y) that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you,^{(Z) 5} but now I am going to him who sent me.^(AA) None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’^{(AB) 6} Rather, you are filled with grief^(AC) because I have said these things. ⁷ But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate^(AD) will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.^{(AE) 8} When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: ⁹ about sin,^(AF) because people do not believe in me; ¹⁰ about righteousness,^(AG) because I am going to the Father,^(AH) where you can see me no longer; ¹¹ and about judgment, because the prince of this world^(AI) now stands condemned.

¹² “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.^{(AJ) 13} But when he, the Spirit of truth,^(AK) comes, he will guide you into all the truth.^(AL) He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. ¹⁴ He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. ¹⁵ All that belongs to the Father is mine.^(AM) That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”