John 15:24

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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.

whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

therefore Tyre and Sidon shall be treated with less severity in the day of judgment, than you.

but he being hated by the citizens, after he was gone, they sent a deputation to court, to make this protest, "we will not have him for our king."

if I do not the works of my father, believe me not.

But though he had done so many miracles in their presence, yet they did not believe on him:

if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.

of sin, because they believ'd not on me;