John 15:18

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

In Context

17These things I command you, that you may love one another.

19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:11Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account.

Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and kill you; and you will be hated by all nations on my account.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man.

John 7:7The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

Matthew Henry on John 15:10-18

Christ's Love to His Disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my… Read the whole commentary →

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