John 15:18 · KJV
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before {it hated} you.”
— John 15:18
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 15 — Context
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and {that} your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before {it hated} you.
19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Cross References
1 John 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you {from their company}, and shall reproach {you}, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. {reproved: or, discovered}
Mark 13:13
And ye shall be hated of all {men} for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 10:22
And ye shall be hated of all {men} for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye, when {men} shall revile you, and persecute {you}, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. {falsely: Gr. lying}
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.