John 15:18
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
1 Kings 22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man by whom we may seek advice from Yahweh to help, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him because he does not prophesy anything good about me, but only hardships.” But Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not say that.”
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by people; a man of sorrows, and one familiar with pain. 1 Like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised; and we considered him insignificant. 1
Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil things against you falsely for my sake.
Matthew 24:9Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.
Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
John 7:7The world cannot 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 →