John 16:1 References

1 "aThese things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from bstumbling.

a John 15:18-27


John 15

18 "aIf the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
19 "If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but aI chose you out of the world, bbecause of this the world hates you.
20 "Remember the word that I said to you, 'aA slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, bthey will also persecute you; if they ckept My word, they will keep yours also.
21 "But all these things they will do to you afor My name's sake, bbecause they do not know the One who sent Me.
22 "aIf I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 "He who hates Me hates My Father also.
24 "aIf I had not done among them bthe works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
25 "But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their aLaw, 'bTHEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.'
26 "When the aHelper comes, bwhom I will send to you from the Father, that is cthe Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, dHe will testify about Me,
27 and ayou will testify also, because you have been with Me bfrom the beginning.

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