John Chapter 15 verse 18 Holy Bible
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before `it hated' you.
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If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
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If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
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If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - You need net be surprised if the world hate you. "The world," κόσμος (five times used in strongly emphatic manner), is humanity apart from grace. This world will despise and hate your mutual love, will scorn your love to itself for my sake; will detest the higher and unworldly standard which you will set up. But here is some consolation. Know (γινώσκετε imperative, as μνημονεύετε in Ver. 20) that it has hated me before (it hated) you. "Me first, me most" (Lange). "The superlative contains the comparative" (Tholuck). "This hatred is a community of destiny with me" (Meyer). You know how it has hated me, and hunted me from Bethlehem to Egypt, from Nazareth to Capernaum, from Gergesa to Jerusalem. Be not surprised if it hate you.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) If the world hate you.--He has spoken of their close union with Himself, and of their love to each other. He proceeds in the remainder of the chapter to speak of their relation to the world. There is a striking contrast between the "love" in the last verse, and the "hatred" in this. There was the more need for them to be close bound to each other, and to their Lord, on account of the hatred which awaited them in the world.Ye know that it hated me before it hated you.--It is better to take the first word as an imperative, "Know that it hated . . ." The very hatred, then, is a bond of union with their Master, and this thought should supply strength to meet it, and joy even when suffering from it (John 15:11). (Comp. 1Peter 4:12-13.)
