John 15:17

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

“If the world hates you, then know that it has [already] hated me, [even] before it hated you.

Cross References

John 15:12

My commandment [to you] is this: You should love one another just as I have loved you.

1 Peter 2:17

Show [proper] respect for everyone. Love your [Christian] brothers [and sisters]. Have an awe-inspiring respect for God. Show honor to the king.

John 13:34

I am giving you a new commandment: love one another. Also you should love one another in the same way that I have loved you.

2 John 1:5

And now I ask you, lady [See verse 1], not as though writing a new commandment to you, but [I wanted to remind you of] one that we had [heard] from the beginning [of Christ’s ministry]: [It is] that we should love one another.