John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
In Context
17I am giving you these commands that you may love one another.
Cross References
Matthew 5:11Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you — untruly, and on my account.
Matthew 24:9When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.
Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they expel you from among them, and taunt you, and reject your Name as an evil thing — on account of the Son of Man.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways 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 →