John 15:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁶ You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. ¹⁷ I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ ‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.