John 15:19

17 This is My command to you: Love one another.

18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.

21 But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

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

Compare

BSB
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
KJV
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.
WEB
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
ASV
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
DARBY
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.
BLB
If you⁺ were of the world, the world would love [you] [as] its own; but because you⁺ are not of the world, but I chose you⁺ out of the world, on account of this, the world hates you⁺.
ÅB
Var dere av verden, da ville verden elske sitt eget; men fordi dere ikke er av verden, men jeg har utvalgt dere av verden, derfor hater verden dere.
OTB
Hvis dere var av verden, ville verden elske dere som sine egne. Men fordi dere ikke er av verden, og jeg har valgt dere ut av verden, derfor hater verden dere.
B1930
Var I av verden, da vilde verden elske sitt eget; men fordi I ikke er av verden, men jeg har utvalgt eder av verden, derfor hater verden eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 John 4:4–5

    You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

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  • John 17:14–16

    I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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  • Ephesians 1:4–11

    For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

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  • Titus 3:3–7

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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  • John 15:16

    You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

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  • 1 John 5:19–20

    We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

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  • Ephesians 2:2–5

    in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

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  • 1 Peter 2:9–12

    But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

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