John 15:18

Suffering Following Jesus

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that ye love one another.

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.

²⁰ Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
KJV: If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
WEB: If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
ASV: If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.
DARBY: If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
BLB: If the world hates you⁺, you⁺ know that it has hated Me before you⁺.

ÅB: Når verden hater dere, da skal dere vite at den har hatet meg før dere.
OTB: Hvis verden hater dere, husk at den hatet meg før den hatet dere.
B1930: Når verden hater eder, da skal I vite at den har hatet mig før eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 John 3:13
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
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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.
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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.
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John 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
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Matthew 10:22
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
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1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
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Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
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