John 15:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 3:13 : 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
  • Mark 13:13 : 13 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Matt 10:22 : 22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
  • John 15:23-25 : 23 He who hates me, hates my Father also. 24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father. 25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 John 3:3 : 3 Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
  • Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw 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%

    19 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.

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

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

  • John 7:7
    82%

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

  • John 17:13-14
    2 verses
    82%

    13 But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

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

  • John 15:23-25
    3 verses
    81%

    23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.

    24 If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

    25 But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

  • 1 John 3:13
    79%

    13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

  • John 15:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

    17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

  • Luke 21:17
    77%

    17 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

  • 1 John 2:15
    74%

    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • John 15:12
    74%

    12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • John 16:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

    2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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

  • Matt 24:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

    10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

  • John 5:42
    73%

    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

  • Luke 6:22
    73%

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

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Matt 5:43-44
    2 verses
    72%

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

    44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

  • Mark 13:13
    72%

    13 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

  • John 15:9
    72%

    9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

  • John 17:16
    72%

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

  • John 17:25
    71%

    25 Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

  • Ps 139:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

    22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.

  • John 14:15
    71%

    15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 16:27
    71%

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

  • Luke 6:27
    71%

    27 "But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

  • Matt 10:22
    71%

    22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

  • John 17:23
    71%

    23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

  • John 12:25
    70%

    25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

  • Luke 14:26
    70%

    26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

  • 1 John 4:5
    70%

    5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

  • John 17:18
    70%

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

  • John 16:33
    70%

    33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

  • 1 John 3:15
    70%

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

  • John 8:37
    69%

    37 I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • John 8:23
    69%

    23 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%

    11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  • John 14:20
    69%

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

  • John 5:38
    69%

    38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

  • John 15:14
    68%

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