John 15:22-16:4

Prepared for Persecution

  1. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
  2. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
  3. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
  4. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
  5. But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
  6. And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
  1. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
  2. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
  3. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  4. But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.