John 15:18

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.

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
"If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁸"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. ²⁰ "When that happens, remember this: Servants don't get better treatment than their masters. If they beat on me, they will certainly beat on you. If they did what I told them, they will do what you tell them. ²¹"They are going to do all these things to you because of the way they treated me, because they don't know the One who sent me. If I hadn't come and told them all this in plain language, it wouldn't be so bad. As it is, they have no excuse. Hate me, hate my Father—it's all the same. If I hadn't done what I have done among them, works no one has ever done, they wouldn't be to blame. But they saw the God-signs and hated anyway, both me and my Father. Interesting—they have verified the truth of their own Scriptures where it is written, ‘They hated me for no good reason.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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 12:7
God appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children." Abram built an altar at the place God had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:1
After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: "Don't be afraid, Abram. I'm your shield. Your reward will be grand!"

Genesis 15:2
Abram said, " God , Master, what use are your gifts as long as I'm childless and Eliezer of Damascus is going to inherit everything?" Abram continued, "See, you've given me no children, and now a mere house servant is going to get it all."

Genesis 15:4
Then God 's Message came: "Don't worry, he won't be your heir; a son from your body will be your heir."

Genesis 15:7
God continued, "I'm the same God who brought you from Ur of the Chaldees and gave you this land to own."

Genesis 15:8
Abram said, "Master God , how am I to know this, that it will all be mine?"

Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I'll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."

Genesis 15:17
When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses. That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Genesis 50:24
At the end, Joseph said to his brothers, "I am ready to die. God will most certainly pay you a visit and take you out of this land and back to the land he so solemnly promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Deuteronomy 7:1
When God , your God, brings you into the country that you are about to enter and take over, he will clear out the superpowers that were there before you: the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. Those seven nations are all bigger and stronger than you are. God , your God, will turn them over to you and you will conquer them. You must completely destroy them, offering them up as a holy destruction to God . Don't make a treaty with them. Don't let them off in any way.

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.