John 15:18-19

Disciples' Relation to the World

18 "¹If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

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

Cross References

• 1. John 7:7; 1 John 3:13
• 2. John 15:16
• 3. Matthew 10:22; Matthew 24:9; John 17:14

Footnotes

• [a]. Or (imperative) "know that"