John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, because I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.
Cross References
John 15:16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: so that whatever you shall ask from the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Ephesians 1:4Just as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him. In love
Titus 3:3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaves to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy; hated, and hating one another.
1 Peter 4:3For the time past was sufficient for doing the things the Gentiles desire to do: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, revelling, carousing, and abominable idolatries.
1 John 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he who is in you, than he who is in the world.
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
Matthew Henry on John 15:19-26
Hatred and Persecution Foretold. 18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things will they do unto you… Read the whole commentary →