John 15:18

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If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

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  • 1 John 3:13 : 13 Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
  • John 7:7 : 7 'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.
  • Mark 13:13 : 13 Everyone will hate you because of My name, but the one who endures to the end will be saved.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, 'There is still one man through whom we can inquire of the LORD, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, only bad. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.' Jehoshaphat replied, 'The king should not say such a thing.'
  • John 15:23-25 : 23 Whoever hates me also hates my Father. 24 If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 This is what the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: To the one despised and abhorred by the nations, to the servant of rulers: Kings will see you and stand to attention, and princes will bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 In one month I disposed of the three shepherds. My soul was impatient with them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 'Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.'
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you when people hate you, exclude you, insult you, and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • John 15:19-21
    3 verses
    90%

    19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. But you do not belong to the world, for I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

    20Remember the word I spoke to you: A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

    21But they will do all these things to you because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me.

  • John 7:7
    82%

    7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • John 17:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

    14I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • John 15:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23Whoever hates me also hates my Father.

    24If I had not done the works among them that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen these works, and yet they have hated both me and my Father.

    25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: 'They hated me without reason.'

  • 1 John 3:13
    79%

    13Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

  • John 15:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

    17This is my command: Love one another.

  • Luke 21:17
    77%

    17Everyone will hate you because of my name.

  • 1 John 2:15
    74%

    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

  • John 15:12
    74%

    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

  • John 16:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

    2They will ban you from the synagogue. But the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

    3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • Matt 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9'Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.'

    10'At that time many will turn away from the faith, betray, and hate each other.'

  • John 5:42
    73%

    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • Luke 6:22
    73%

    22Blessed are you when people hate you, exclude you, insult you, and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'

    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • Matt 5:43-44
    2 verses
    72%

    43You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'

    44But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

  • Mark 13:13
    72%

    13Everyone will hate you because of My name, but the one who endures to the end will be saved.

  • John 15:9
    72%

    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

  • John 17:16
    72%

    16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • John 17:25
    71%

    25Righteous Father, though the world has not known You, I have known You, and they have known that You sent Me.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Do I not hate those who hate You, LORD, and detest those who rise up against You?

    22I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them as my enemies.

  • John 14:15
    71%

    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 16:27
    71%

    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • Luke 6:27
    71%

    27But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.

  • Matt 10:22
    71%

    22You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23I in them and You in Me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me.

  • John 12:25
    70%

    25The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

  • Luke 14:26
    70%

    26If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.

  • 1 John 4:5
    70%

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

  • John 17:18
    70%

    18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

  • John 16:33
    70%

    33'I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have trouble. But take courage! I have overcome the world.'

  • 1 John 3:15
    70%

    15Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them.

  • John 8:37
    69%

    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

  • John 8:23
    69%

    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • Matt 5:11
    69%

    11Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

  • John 14:20
    69%

    20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

  • John 5:38
    69%

    38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

  • John 15:14
    68%

    14You are my friends if you do what I command.