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John 15:18-21

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. 19. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. 20. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. 21. But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

John 15:18-21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on John 15:18

Theological / Devotional

If the world hate you. [A Warning of Persecution, John 15:18 to 16:4.] There would be hatred from the world, but among the inner group there ought to be love (v. 17). They would have sufficient to endure from the bitter conflict with the world, without adding to the antagonism from without (Luke 22:24). The world hates those whose sympathies and interests are at variance with it (see on ch. 7:7).

It hated me. The full fury of the world’s hatred the disciples were yet to see.

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