John 15:18

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel answered, “There is one other man through whom we might consult the Lord; but I hate him because he prophesies not good but evil about me. He is Micaiah, son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say that.”

Proverbs 29:27

An abomination to the just, the evildoer; an abomination to the wicked, one whose way is straight.

Isaiah 49:7

Thus says the Lord, the redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, To the one despised, abhorred by the nations, the slave of rulers: When kings see you, they shall stand up, and princes shall bow down Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen you.

Isaiah 53:3

He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, knowing pain, Like one from whom you turn your face, spurned, and we held him in no esteem.

Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word! Your kin who hate you and cast you out because of my name say, “May the Lord show his glory, that we may see your joy”; but they shall be put to shame.

Zechariah 11:8

In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

Then they will hand you over to persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of my name.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you [falsely] because of me.

Mark 13:13

You will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved. The Great Tribulation.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

John 16:1

“I have told you this so that you may not fall away.

John 16:33

I have told you this so that you might have peace in me. In the world you will have trouble, but take courage, I have conquered the world.”

John 3:20

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.

John 7:7

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

Acts 14:22

They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 12:2

while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith. For the sake of the joy that lay before him he endured the cross, despising its shame, and has taken his seat at the right of the throne of God.

James 4:4

Adulterers! Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:13

Do not be amazed, [then,] brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 3:3

Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure, as he is pure. Avoiding Sin.