John 15:19 · KJV
“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 15:19
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before {it hated} you.
Remember 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.
John 15 — Context
These 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.
21But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Cross References
1 John 4:4-5
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
John 17:14-16
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Ephesians 1:4-11
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Titus 3:3-7
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.
1 John 5:19-20
{And} we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
John 15:16
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.
Ephesians 2:2-5
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
1 Peter 2:9-12
But ye {are} a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: {peculiar: or, purchased} {praises: or, virtues}