John 15:18-27

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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. ²⁰Remember 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. ²¹But ^(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. ²²If I had not come and spoken to them, ^(J)they would not have been guilty of sin,^[a] but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³^(K)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. ²⁴^(L)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, ^(M)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have ^(N)seen and hated both me and my Father. ²⁵But ^(O)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ^(P)‘They hated me without a cause.’

²⁶“But ^(Q)when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, ^(R)he will bear witness about me. ²⁷And ^(S)you also will bear witness, ^(T)because you have been with me ^(U)from the beginning.

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Footnotes

John 15:22 Greek they would not have sin; also verse 24

Job 29

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Job's Summary Defense

29 And Job again ^(A)took up his discourse, and said:

²“Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
    as in the days when God watched over me,
³when his ^(B)lamp shone upon my head,
    and by his light I walked through darkness,
⁴as I was in my prime,^[a]
    when the ^(C)friendship of God was upon my tent,
⁵when the Almighty was yet with me,
    when my ^(D)children were all around me,
⁶when my steps were ^(E)washed with ^(F)butter,
    and ^(G)the rock poured out for me streams of ^(H)oil!
⁷When I went out to ^(I)the gate of the city,
    when I prepared my seat in the square,
⁸the young men saw me and withdrew,
    and the aged rose and stood;
⁹the princes refrained from talking
    and ^(J)laid their hand on their mouth;
¹⁰the voice of the nobles was hushed,
    and their ^(K)tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
¹¹When the ear heard, it called me blessed,
    and when the eye saw, it approved,
¹²because I ^(L)delivered the poor who cried for help,
    and the fatherless who had none to help him.
¹³^(M)The blessing of him who was ^(N)about to perish came upon me,
    and I caused ^(O)the widow's heart to sing for joy.
¹⁴I ^(P)put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
    my justice was like a robe and ^(Q)a turban.
¹⁵I was ^(R)eyes to the blind
    and feet to the lame.
¹⁶I was a father to the needy,
    and I searched out ^(S)the cause of him whom I did not know.
¹⁷I ^(T)broke ^(U)the fangs of the unrighteous
    and made him drop his prey from his teeth.
¹⁸^(V)Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my ^(W)nest,
    and I shall multiply my days as ^(X)the sand,
¹⁹my ^(Y)roots spread out to ^(Z)the waters,
    with the dew all night on my ^(AA)branches,
²⁰my glory fresh with me,
    and my ^(AB)bow ever ^(AC)new in my hand.’

²¹“Men listened to me and waited
    and kept silence for my counsel.
²²After I spoke they did not speak again,
    and my word ^(AD)dropped upon them.
²³They waited for me as for the rain,
    and they ^(AE)opened their mouths as for the ^(AF)spring rain.
²⁴I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
    and ^(AG)the light of my ^(AH)face they did not cast down.
²⁵I chose their way and sat as chief,
    and I lived like ^(AI)a king among his troops,
    like one who comforts mourners.