John 15:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ ‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world,^[a] 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, “Servants^[b] are not greater than their master.” If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also.