John 15:18 KJV
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18, King James Version
In context
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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.
Cross-references
- 1 John 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
- John 7:7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
- Luke 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
- John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
- Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.