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John 15:18
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“If the world hates
If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
"If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
If the people of this world hate you, just remember that they hated me first.
"If the world hates you, understand that it hated me first.
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
"If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first.
If the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before you.
If the world hate you, know well that it has hated me before you.
"If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it has hated you.
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.1 John 3:1,13;">[xr]
And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.
And if the world hate you, know ye, that it hated me before you.
Yf the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before it hated you.
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
If the world hate you, ye know it hated me, before it hated you.
If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.
If the world hates you, you know it hated Me before it hated you.
"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.
If, the world, is hating, you, ye are getting to know that, me, before you, it hath hated.
If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Yf ye worlde hate you ye knowe that he hated me before he hated you.
if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
Yf the worlde hate you, then knowe, that it hath hated me before you.
if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.
"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.
"When people start hating you, remember that they hated me first.
Contextual Overview
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
forsothe the name of the thridde ryuer is Tigris, thilke goith ayens Assiriens; sotheli the fourthe ryuer is thilke Eufrates.
Sotheli the Lord apperide to Abram, and seide to hym, Y schal yyue this lond to thi seed. And Abram bildide there an auter to the Lord, that apperide to hym.
Y schal yyue al the lond which thou seest to thee and to thi seed, til in to with outen ende.
And so whanne these thingis weren don, the word of the Lord was maad to Abram bi a visioun, and seide, Abram, nyle thou drede, Y am thi defender, and thi meede is ful greet.
And Abram seide, Lord God, what schalt thou yyue to me? Y schal go with oute fre children, and this Damask, sone of Elieser, the procuratour of myn hous, schal be myn eir.
And Abram addide, Sotheli thou hast not youe seed to me, and, lo! my borun seruaunt schal be myn eir.
And anoon the word of the Lord was maad to hym, and seide, This schal not be thin eir, but thou schalt haue hym eir, that schal go out of thi wombe.
And God seide to hym, Y am the Lord, that ladde thee out of Vr of Caldeis, that Y schulde yyue this lond to thee, and thou schuldist haue it in possessioun.
And Abram seide, Lord God, wherbi may I wite that Y schal welde it?
And it was seid to hym, Wite thou bifore knowinge, that thi seed schal be pilgrim foure hundrid yeer in a lond not his owne, and thei schulen make hem suget to seruage, and thei schulen turment hem;
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.
