约翰福音 15:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們若屬於這世界，世人必定愛屬自己的；但因為你們不屬於世界，而是我從世界中揀選了你們，所以世人就恨你們。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 若 属 世 界 ， 世 界 必 爱 属 自 己 的 ； 只 因 你 们 不 属 世 界 ， 乃 是 我 从 世 界 中 拣 选 了 你 们 ， 所 以 世 界 就 恨 你 们 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, it would love you as it loves its own. But I have chosen you out of the world, so you don't belong to it. That is why the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you: A servant is not greater than his master. If people did wrong to me, they will do wrong to you, too. And if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours, too. ²¹ They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know the One who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ Whoever hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ I did works among them that no one else has ever done. If I had not done these works, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen what I have done, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. ²⁵ But this happened so that what is written in their law would be true: ‘They hated me for no reason.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were of the world: Luke 6:32, 1 John 4:4, 1 John 4:5

because: John 15:16, John 17:14-16, Ephesians 1:4-11, Ephesians 2:2-5, Titus 3:3-7, 1 Peter 2:9-12, 1 Peter 4:3, 1 John 3:12, 1 John 5:19, 1 John 5:20, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 20:7-9

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:4 - hated him Leviticus 20:24 - which Joshua 10:4 - we may 1 Samuel 8:20 - General 1 Kings 22:8 - but I hate him 2 Chronicles 18:7 - I hate him Nehemiah 6:19 - they reported Psalms 17:14 - men of Psalms 106:23 - his chosen Proverbs 29:10 - The bloodthirsty Amos 5:10 - hate Micah 3:2 - hate Matthew 10:22 - shall be hated Matthew 19:29 - my Matthew 22:6 - the remnant Matthew 24:9 - shall they Matthew 25:45 - Inasmuch Mark 13:13 - ye Luke 6:26 - when Luke 21:17 - ye John 7:7 - world John 8:23 - ye are of John 16:33 - In the John 17:6 - the men John 17:22 - the glory Romans 12:2 - be not 1 Corinthians 5:10 - of this 2 Corinthians 6:14 - for Galatians 1:4 - from Colossians 2:20 - living 1 Thessalonians 3:3 - we are 2 Timothy 3:12 - shall James 4:4 - the friendship 1 John 2:15 - Love not 1 John 3:13 - if

Cross-References

Genesis 15:21
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If ye were of the world,.... Belonged to the world, were of the same spirit and principles with it, and pursued the same practices:

the world would love its own; for every like loves its like; the men of the world love each other's persons, company, and conversation:

but because ye are not of the world: once they were, being born into it, brought up in it, had their conversation among the men of it, were themselves men of carnal, worldly, principles and practices; but being called by Christ, and becoming his disciples, they were no more of it; and as he was not of the world, so they were not of it, though they were in it. The Jews distinguish the disciples of the wise men, from אינשי דעלמא, "the men of the world" u, pretending that they were not; but this is a character that only belongs to the disciples of Christ, in consequence of their being called by him out of it:

but I have chosen you out of the world: which designs not the eternal election of them, but the separation of them from the rest of the world in the effectual calling, and the designation of them to his work and service:

therefore the world hateth you; and since it was upon that account, they had no reason to be uneasy, but rather to rejoice; seeing this was an evidence of their not belonging to the world, and of being chosen and called by Christ out of it.

u T. Bab. Kiddushin, fol. 80. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If ye were of the world - If you were actuated by the principles of the world. If, like them, you were vain, earthly, sensual, given to pleasure, wealth, ambition, they would not oppose you.

Because ye are not of the world - Because you are influenced by different principles from men of the world. You are actuated by the love of God and holiness; they by the love of sin.

I have chosen you out of the world - I have, by choosing you to be my followers, separated you from their society, and placed you under the government of my holy laws.

Therefore ... - A Christian may esteem it as one evidence of his piety that he is hated by wicked men. Often most decided evidence is given that a man is the friend of God by the opposition excited against him by the profane, by Sabbath-breakers, and by the dissolute, 1 John 3:13; John 7:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:19. Ye are not of the world - therefore, &c.] On this very account, because ye do not join in fellowship with those who know not God, therefore they hate you. How true is that saying:-

"The laws of Christ condemn a vicious world,

And goad it to revenge!"

GAMBOLD.