Verse 18

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

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.