John 15:18

Easy-to-Read Version

"If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“If the world hates

King James Version (1611)
If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you.

King James Version
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

English Standard Version
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

New American Standard Bible
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

New Century Version
"If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

Amplified Bible
"If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

Legacy Standard Bible
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

Berean Standard Bible
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

Contemporary English Version
If the people of this world hate you, just remember that they hated me first.

Complete Jewish Bible
"If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.

Darby Translation
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
If the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before you.

George Lamsa Translation
If the world hate you, know well that it has hated me before you.

Good News Translation
"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.

Lexham English Bible
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Literal Translation
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it has hated you.

American Standard Version
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

Bible in Basic English
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

Hebrew Names Version
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

International Standard Version
"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.1 John 3:1,13;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.

Murdock Translation
And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yf the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before it hated you.

English Revised Version
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

World English Bible
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If the world hate you, ye know it hated me, before it hated you.

Weymouth's New Testament
If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the world hatith you, wite ye, that it hadde me in hate rather than you.

Update Bible Version
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

Webster's Bible Translation
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.

New English Translation
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

New King James Version
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

New Living Translation
"If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

New Life Bible
If the world hates you, you know it hated Me before it hated you.

New Revised Standard
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, the world, is hating, you, ye are getting to know that, me, before you, it hath hated.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

Revised Standard Version
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf ye worlde hate you ye knowe that he hated me before he hated you.

Young's Literal Translation
if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf the worlde hate you, then knowe, that it hath hated me before you.

Mace New Testament (1729)
if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.

THE MESSAGE
"If you find the godless world is hating you, remember it got its start hating me. If you lived on the world's terms, the world would love you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God's terms and no longer on the world's terms, the world is going to hate you.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"When people start hating you, remember that they hated me first.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as it loves its own people. But I have chosen you to be different from those in the world. So you don't belong to the world, and that is why the world hates you. ²⁰ "Remember the lesson I told you: Servants are not greater than their master. If people treated me badly, they will treat you badly too. And if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too. ²¹ They will do to you whatever they did to me, because you belong to me. They don't know the one who sent me. ²² If I had not come and spoken to the people of the world, they would not be guilty of sin. But now I have spoken to them. So they have no excuse for their sin. ²³ "Whoever hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ I did things among the people of the world that no one else has ever done. If I had not done those things, they would not be guilty of sin. But they have seen what I did, and still they hate me and my Father. ²⁵ But this happened to make clear the full meaning of what is written in their law: ‘They hated me for no reason.'

Bible Verse Review
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John 15:23-25, John 3:20, John 7:7, 1 Kings 22:8, Isaiah 49:7, Isaiah 53:3, Zechariah 11:8, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 10:22, Matthew 24:9, Mark 13:13, Luke 6:22, Hebrews 12:2, James 4:4, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 3:3, 1 John 3:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:4 - hated him Exodus 20:5 - of them 1 Kings 22:24 - smote Micaiah 2 Kings 19:28 - thy rage 2 Chronicles 18:7 - I hate him 2 Chronicles 19:2 - hate the Lord Psalms 34:21 - they Psalms 38:19 - they that Proverbs 29:10 - The bloodthirsty Isaiah 66:5 - Your Micah 3:2 - hate Matthew 7:14 - narrow Matthew 25:45 - Inasmuch Mark 9:50 - have peace Mark 15:21 - to bear Luke 12:52 - General Luke 19:14 - General John 8:23 - ye are of John 12:11 - General John 17:11 - but John 17:14 - the world John 17:22 - the glory Acts 7:26 - ye are Acts 16:20 - do 2 Corinthians 6:14 - for Galatians 1:4 - from Hebrews 12:3 - contradiction 1 John 5:19 - and the

Cross-References

Genesis 2:14
The name of the third river was Tigris. This river flowed east of Assyria. The fourth river was the Euphrates.

Genesis 12:7
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." Abram built an altar to honor the Lord who appeared to him there.

Genesis 13:15
All this land that you see I will give to you and your people who live after you. This will be your land forever.

Genesis 15:1
After all these things happened, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. God said, "Abram, don't be afraid. I will defend you and give you a great reward."

Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, "Lord God , there is nothing you can give me that will make me happy, because I have no son. My slave Eliezer from Damascus will get everything I own after I die."

Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "You have given me no son, so a slave born in my house will get everything I have."

Genesis 15:4
Then the Lord spoke to Abram and said, "That slave will not be the one to get what you have. You will have a son who will get everything you own."

Genesis 15:7
He said to Abram, "I am the Lord who led you from Ur of Babylonia. I did this so that I could give you this land. You will own this land."

Genesis 15:8
But Abram said, "Lord God , how can I be sure that I will get this land?"

Genesis 15:13
Then the Lord said to Abram, "You should know this: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. The people there will make them slaves and be cruel to them for 400 years.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If the world hate you,.... After our Lord had signified how much he loved his disciples and what great things he had done for them, he faithfully acquaints them with the world's hatred of them, and what they must expect to meet with from that quarter, and says many things to fortify their minds against it; his words do not imply any doubt about it, but he rather takes it for granted, as a thing out of question; "if", or "seeing the world hate you"; they had had some experience of it already, and might look for more, when their master was gone from them: wherefore, he, in order to engage their patience under it, says,

ye know that it hated me before it hated you; which words are an appeal of Christ to his apostles, for the usage he had met with from the wicked and unbelieving world of the Jews; how they had expressed their hatred, not only by words, calling him a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a sinner, a Samaritan, a madman, one that had a devil, yea, Beelzebub himself, but by deeds; taking up stones to stone him more than once, leading him to the brow of an hill, in order to cast him down headlong, consulting by various means to take away his life, as Herod did in his very infancy; which was done, before they showed so much hatred to his disciples; and perhaps reference may be had to the original enmity between the seed of the woman, and the seed of the serpent, mentioned Genesis 3:15; as well as to these instances. Moreover, the words πρωτον υμων, rendered "before you", may be translated "the first" or "chief of you", your Lord and head; and denotes the dignity, excellency, and superiority of Christ; wherefore it is suggested, that if he, who was so much before them in personal worth and greatness, was hated by the world, they should not think it hard, or any strange thing, that this should be their case.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If the world hate you - The friendship of the world they were not to expect, but they were not to be deterred from their work by its hatred. They had seen the example of Jesus. No opposition of the proud, the wealthy, the learned, or the men of power, no persecution or gibes, had deterred him from his work. Remembering this, and having his example steadily in the eye, they were to labor not less because wicked men should oppose and deride them. It is enough for the disciple to be as his Master, and the servant as his Lord, Matthew 10:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 15:18. If the world hate you — As the followers of Christ were to be exposed to the hatred of the world, it was no small consolation to them to know that that hatred would be only in proportion to their faith and holiness; and that, consequently, instead of being troubled at the prospect of persecution, they should rejoice, because that should always be a proof to them that they were in the very path in which Jesus himself had trod. Dr. Lardner thinks that πρωτον is a substantive, or at least an adjective used substantively, and this clause of the text should be translated thus: If the world hate you, know that it hated me, your CHIEF. It is no wonder that the world should hate you, when it hated me, your Lord and Master, whose lips were without guile, and whose conduct was irreproachable. See the doctor's vindication of this translation, WORKS, vol. i. p. 306.