John 15:17-16:2 (Gospel, St. Demetrius)
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- These things I command you, that you love one another.
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- If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
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- If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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- Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
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- But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.
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- If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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- He who hates Me hates My Father also.
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- If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.
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- But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
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- But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.
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- And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
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- These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble.
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- They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.