John 15:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 1 John 3:13 : 13 Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
  • Mark 13:13 : 13 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
  • John 15:23-25 : 23 He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happens so that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
  • John 3:20 : 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the 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 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to the servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I also cut off three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:19-21
    3 verses
    90%

    19If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

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

    21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.

  • John 7:7
    82%

    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.

  • John 17:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13And now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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

  • John 15:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23He who hates me hates my Father also.

    24If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

    25But this happens so that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

  • 1 John 3:13
    79%

    13Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  • John 15:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you.

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

  • Luke 21:17
    77%

    17And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake.

  • 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 him.

  • John 15:12
    74%

    12This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

  • John 16:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1I have spoken these things to you so that you may not be offended.

    2They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

    3And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.

  • Matt 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.

    10And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

  • Luke 6:22
    73%

    22Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • Matt 5:43-44
    2 verses
    72%

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

    44But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you;

  • Mark 13:13
    72%

    13And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.

  • John 15:9
    72%

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

  • John 17:16
    72%

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

  • John 17:25
    71%

    25O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

    22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them 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 hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  • Matt 10:22
    71%

    22And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he who endures to the end shall be saved.

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.

  • John 12:25
    70%

    25He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

  • Luke 14:26
    70%

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

  • 1 John 4:5
    70%

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

  • John 17:18
    70%

    18As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

  • John 16:33
    70%

    33I have spoken these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

  • 1 John 3:15
    70%

    15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

  • John 8:37
    69%

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

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 8:23
    69%

    23And he said to them, You are from beneath; I am from above: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

  • Matt 5:11
    69%

    11Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  • John 14:20
    69%

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

  • John 15:14
    68%

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