John 15:18
If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated me before it hated you.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 ye love one another.
Cross References
Matthew 5:11Happy are ye, when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say all evil against you falsely[5:11], for my sake.
Matthew 24:9Then will they deliver you up unto affliction, and will kill you; and ye will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Luke 6:22Happy are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the sake 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 →