John 15:18
“When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.
Family 35 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 so that you love one another.
Cross References
Matthew 5:11“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and speak all kinds of evil against you, lying, because of Me.
Matthew 24:9“Then they will hand you over to oppression and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
Luke 6:22Blessed are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and heap insults on you and trash your name as ‘malignant’, for the Son of the Man's sake.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but does hate me, because I testify about it that its works are malignant.
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 →