John 15:18
If the world hate you, know ye, that it had me in hate rather than you.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 to you, that ye love together (or that ye love one another).
Cross References
1 Kings 22:8And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, One man, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, is left, by whom we may ask the Lord; but I hate him, for he prophesieth not good to me, but evil. To whom Jehoshaphat said, King, speak thou not so. (And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is one man left, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we can ask the Lord; but I hate him, for he never prophesieth good things for me, but only evil. To whom Jehoshaphat said, O king, do not thou say such things!)
Isaiah 53:3despised, and the last of men, a man of sorrows, and knowing sickness. And his cheer was as hid (from us), and despised; wherefore and we areckoned not him. (he was despised, and the last of men, a man of sorrows, and knowing of suffering. And we hid our faces from him, for we despised him, and regarded him as if he was nothing, or of no account.)
Matthew 5:11Blessed be ye, when men shall curse you, and shall pursue you (or shall persecute you), and shall say all evil against you lying, for me.
Matthew 24:9Then men shall betake you into tribulation, and shall slay you, and ye shall be in hate [or in hatred] to all folks for my name. (Then men shall deliver you unto trials and troubles, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations and all the peoples, for my name’s sake.)
Luke 6:22Ye shall be blessed, when men shall hate you, and separate you away, and put reproof to you [or and shall put shame on you], and cast out your name as evil, for man’s Son.
John 7:7The world may not hate you, soothly it hateth me; for I bear witnessing thereof (or for I testify to it), that the works of it be 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 →