John 15:16-21

16 You did not choose me, but ¹I chose you and appointed you that you should go and ²bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that ³whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

17 These things I command you, ⁴so that you will love one another.

The Hatred of the World

18 ⁵"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 ⁶If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ⁷you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you: ⁸'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, ⁹they will also persecute you. ¹⁰If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21 But ¹¹all these things they will do to you ¹²on account of my name, ¹³because they do not know him who sent me.

Cross References

• 1. See John 13:18
• 2. [2 John 8]
• 3. [ver. 7]; See John 14:13
• 4. ver. 12
• 5. John 7:7; 1 John 3:13; [ver. 23, 24]
• 6. [1 John 4:5]
• 7. John 17:14, 16; [Luke 6:26; Galatians 1:4; James 4:4]
• 8. John 13:16; Matthew 10:24; [ver. 15]
• 9. John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Timothy 3:12
• 10. [Ezekiel 3:7]; See John 8:51
• 11. John 16:3
• 12. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; Revelation 2:3; [Acts 5:41; 1 Peter 4:14, 16]
• 13. See Acts 3:17