John 15:18-21

The Hatred of the World

18 ¹“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 ²If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because ³you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

20 Remember the word that I said to you: ⁴‘A servant is not greater than his master. ’ If they persecuted me, ⁵they will also persecute you. ⁶If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

21 But ⁷all these things they will do to you ⁸on account of my name, ⁹because they do not know him who sent me.

Cross References

• 1. 15:18 ch. 7:7; 1 John 3:13; [ver. 23, 24]
• 2. 15:19 [1 John 4:5]
• 3. 15:19 ch. 17:14, 16; [Luke 6:26; Gal. 1:4; James 4:4]
• 4. 15:20 ch. 13:16; Matt. 10:24; [ver. 15]
• 5. 15:20 ch. 16:33; 1 Cor. 4:12; 2 Cor. 4:9; 1 Thess. 2:15; 2 Tim. 3:12
• 6. 15:20 [Ezek. 3:7]; See ch. 8:51
• 7. 15:21 ch. 16:3
• 8. 15:21 Matt. 10:22; 24:9; Rev. 2:3; [Acts 5:41; 1 Pet. 4:14, 16]
• 9. 15:21 See Acts 3:17