Joh 15:18-27 | NASB2020 | STEP | “ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

John 15:18-27

Disciples’ Relation to the World

18 “ ^aIf the world hates you, ^{▼▼Or (command) know that}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 ^cI chose you out of the world, ^dbecause of this the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘ ^eA slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^fthey will persecute you as well; if they ^gfollowed My word, they will follow yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you ^hon account of My name, ⁱbecause they do not know the One who sent Me. 22 ^jIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have ^{▼▼I.e., guilt}sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 The one who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 ^lIf I had not done among them ^mthe works which no one else did, they would not have ^{▼▼I.e., responsibility for their sin}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 ^oLaw will be fulfilled: ‘ ^pThey hated Me for no reason.’

26 “When the ^{▼▼Or Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor
,} ^rHelper comes, ^swhom I will send to you from the Father, namely, ^tthe Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, ^uHe will testify about Me, 27 and ^{▼▼Or (command) testify, you as well
,} ^wyou are testifying as well, because you have been with Me ^xfrom the beginning.