John 15:18-19

The Hatred of the World

¹⁸ _d "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ _e If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because _f you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

1. Cross References
   John 7:7
   The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
   1 John 3:13
   Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
   John 15:23 - 24
   Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
   
2. Cross References
   1 John 4:5
   They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.
   
3. Cross References
   John 17:14
   I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
   John 17:16
   They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
   Luke 6:26
   Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.
   Galatians 1:4
   Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
   James 4:4
   You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.