John 15:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ If the world hates you, know that it hated Me before it hated you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, know that it hated me first.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.

John 15:18 Cross References

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Proverbs 29:27

An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but he whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.

Isaiah 49:7

Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brethren who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Matthew 10:22

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

Matthew 5:11

“Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Mark 13:13

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke 6:22

“Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man!

John 16:1

“I have said all this to you to keep you from falling away.

John 16:33

I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

John 3:20

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

John 7:7

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

Acts 14:22

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

Hebrews 12:2

looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter 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.

James 4:4

Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:13

Do not wonder, brethren, that the world hates you.

1 John 3:3

And every one who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.