John 15:18

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The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 3:13 : 13 Therefore 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 am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
  • Mark 13:13 : 13 You will be hated by everyone 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 and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 And 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 answered Jehoshaphat,“There is still one man through whom we can seek the LORD’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said,“The king should not say such things.”
  • John 15:23-25 : 23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father. 25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 This is what the LORD, the protector of Israel, their Holy One, says to the one who is despised and rejected by nations, a servant of rulers:“Kings will see and rise in respect, princes will bow down, because of the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.”
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:19-21
    3 verses
    90%

    19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

    20 Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

    21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because 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 am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

  • John 17:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

    14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

  • John 15:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

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

    25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’

  • 1 John 3:13
    79%

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

  • John 15:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

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

    17 This I command you– to love one another.

  • Luke 21:17
    77%

    17 You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

  • 1 John 2:15
    74%

    15 Do 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%

    12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

  • John 16:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

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

    2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

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

  • Matt 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

    10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

  • John 5:42
    73%

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

  • Luke 6:22
    73%

    22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • Matt 5:43-44
    2 verses
    72%

    43 Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’

    44 But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you,

  • Mark 13:13
    72%

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

  • John 15:9
    72%

    9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

  • John 17:16
    72%

    16 They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

  • John 17:25
    71%

    25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 O LORD, do I not hate those who hate you, and despise those who oppose you?

    22 I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

  • John 14:15
    71%

    15 Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

  • John 16:27
    71%

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

  • Luke 6:27
    71%

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

  • Matt 10:22
    71%

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

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

  • John 12:25
    70%

    25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

  • Luke 14:26
    70%

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

  • 1 John 4:5
    70%

    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

  • John 17:18
    70%

    18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I 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 have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”

  • 1 John 3:15
    70%

    15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

  • John 8:37
    69%

    37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24 The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

  • John 8:23
    69%

    23 Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

  • Matt 5:11
    69%

    11 “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

  • John 14:20
    69%

    20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

  • John 5:38
    69%

    38 nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • John 15:14
    68%

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

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