John 15:18

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

17“I enjoin these things to you, that you may have agapao ·totally devoted love· to one another.

19If you were of the world, the world would phileo ·affectionately love, have high regard for· its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:3+ 53:3 a MP: Messiah is despised. (See also Ps 22:6b). (Luke 4:28-29; 23:21-25) He was despised, 2 + 53:3 b MP: Messiah is rejected by his own Jewish people, “we did not esteem him”. Yet (Is 49:6 and 60:1-3) says the Messiah’s light draws the Gentiles to Him. (Matt 12:24; Luke 23:10-19; John 1:11, 12:32; Acts 13:47-48) and rejected by men; 1 a man of suffering, + 53:3. Quoted in Luke 24:46 2 + 53:3 c MP: Messiah sympathizes with great sorrow and grief. (Luke 19:41-44; John 11:33-36; Heb 4:15) and acquainted with disease. 1 He was despised + 53:3 d MP: Men would hide their faces from Messiah. (Mark 14:50, 14:69-71) as one from whom men hide their face; 2 and we didn’t respect him. 1

Matthew 5:11“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. 2

John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about 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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