People are saying hateful things about me.\par People are attacking me for no reason.\par
John 15:25 - Easy To Read Version But this happened so that what is written in their law would be true: ‘They hated me for no reason.’ {\cf2\super [219]} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But [this is so] that the word written in their Law might be fulfilled, They hated Me without a cause. [Ps. 35:19; 69:4.] American Standard Version (1901) But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause. Common English Bible This fulfills the word written in their Law, They hated me without a reason. Catholic Public Domain Version But this is so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law: 'For they hated me without cause.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause. |
People are saying hateful things about me.\par People are attacking me for no reason.\par
My lying enemies will not keep laughing.\par Surely my enemies will be punished\par for their secret plans. {\cf2\super [219]} \par
I have more enemies\par than the hairs on my head.\par They hate me for no reason.\par They try hard to destroy me.\par My enemies tell lies about me.\par They lied and said I stole things.\par And then they forced me to pay\par for things I did not steal.\par
I did not do bad things to my friend. {\cf2\super [35]} \par And I did not help my friend’s enemies.\par
Heal sick people. Give dead people life again. Heal those people that have leprosy. {\cf2\super [124]} Force demons {\cf2\super [125]} to leave people. I give you these powers freely. So help other people freely.
Jesus said to them, “Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything written in the law of Moses, the books of the prophets, {\cf2\super [396]} and the Psalms.”
Jesus answered, “It is written in your law, ‘I (God) said you are gods.’ {\cf2\super [170]}
“I am not talking about all of you. I know the people I have chosen. But what the Scripture {\cf2\super [208]} said must happen: ‘The man that shared my food has turned against me.’ {\cf2\super [209]}
These things happened to give full meaning to the Scriptures {\cf2\super [254]} that said: “None of his bones will be broken” {\cf2\super [255]}
These things the law {\cf2\super [28]} says are for the people that are under the law. This stops all \{Jewish\} people from making excuses and brings the whole world (Jews and non-Jews) under God’s judgment.
People are made right with God by his grace (kindness). This is a free gift. People are made right with God by being made free from sin through Jesus Christ.
I did the work of telling God’s Good News {\cf2\super [34]} to you without pay. I humbled myself to make you important. Do you think that was wrong?
This gift is from God, and it is very important to me. Why? Because if law could make us right with God, then Christ did not have to die.
And when we ate another person’s food, we always paid for it. We worked and worked so that we would not be trouble to any of you. We worked night and day.
The One on the throne said to me: “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega, {\cf2\super [158]} the Beginning and the End. I will give free water from the spring of the water of life to any person that is thirsty.
The Spirit {\cf2\super [178]} and the bride say, “Come!” Every person that hears this should also say, “Come!” If a person is thirsty, let him come; that person can have the water of life as a free gift if he wants it.