Parallel Verses

Amplified

“If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

Holman Bible

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

International Standard Version

"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

An Understandable Version

"If the world hates you, then know that it has [already] hated me, [even] before it hated you.

Anderson New Testament

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

Bible in Basic English

If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

Common New Testament

"If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

Daniel Mace New Testament

if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.

Darby Translation

If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

Godbey New Testament

If the world hates you, know that it first hated me.

Goodspeed New Testament

If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

John Wesley New Testament

If the world hate you, ye know it hated me, before it hated you.

Julia Smith Translation

If the world hate you, know that it has hated me the first of you.

King James 2000

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

Modern King James verseion

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you.

Moffatt New Testament

If the world hates you, remember it hated me first.

Montgomery New Testament

"do not forget that it hated me first.

NET Bible

"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.

Sawyer New Testament

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before you.

The Emphasized Bible

If, the world, is hating, you, ye are getting to know that, me, before you, it hath hated.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you.

Twentieth Century New Testament

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

Webster

If the world hateth you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

Weymouth New Testament

If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

Williams New Testament

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

If the world hates you, ye know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

Worsley New Testament

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first.

Youngs Literal Translation

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

the world
κόσμος 
Kosmos 
Usage: 109

μισέω 
Miseo 
Usage: 14

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

ye know
γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764

it hated
μισέω 
Miseo 
Usage: 14

me
ἐμέ 
Eme 
me, I, my, myself
Usage: 26

πρῶτον 
Proton 
first, at the first Trans, first of all,
Usage: 40

References

Fausets

Hastings

Images John 15:18

Prayers for John 15:18

Context Readings

The World's Hatred For The Disciples

17 This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another. 18 “If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love [you as] its own and would treat you with affection. But you are not of the world [you no longer belong to it], but I have chosen you out of the world. And because of this the world hates you.


Cross References

1 John 3:13

Do not be surprised, believers, if the world hates you.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is one more man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he never prophesies good news for me, but only evil.” But Jehoshaphat said, “May the king not say that [Micaiah only tells bad news].”

Isaiah 49:7


This is what the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, Israel’s Holy One says,
To the thoroughly despised One,
To the One hated by the nation
To the Servant of rulers,
Kings will see and arise,
Princes shall also bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

Isaiah 53:3


He was despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and pain and acquainted with grief;
And like One from whom men hide their faces
He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or esteem Him.

Zechariah 11:8

Then I eliminated the three [incompetent, unfit] shepherds [the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets] in one month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me.

Matthew 5:11

“Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil things against you because of [your association with] Me.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by everyone because of [your association with] My name, but it is the one who has patiently persevered and endured to the end who will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

“Then they will hand you over to [endure] tribulation, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Mark 13:13

You will be hated by everyone because of [your association with] My name, but the one who [patiently perseveres empowered by the Holy Spirit and] endures to the end, he will be saved.

Luke 6:22

Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people hate you, and exclude you [from their fellowship], and insult you, and scorn your name as evil because of [your association with] the Son of Man.

John 3:20

For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned.

John 15:23-25

The one who hates Me also hates My Father.

Hebrews 12:2

[looking away from all that will distract us and] focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity], who for the joy [of accomplishing the goal] set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work].

James 4:4

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 3:1

See what an incredible quality of love the Father has shown to us, that we would [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope [confidently placed] in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure (holy, undefiled, guiltless).

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