John 15:18

Jesus warns that if the world hates the disciples, they should know it hated Him first. Hostility toward believers flows from hostility toward Christ.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Jn 3:13Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.
• John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
• Mark 13:13You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
• John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
• 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• Matt 5:11“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
• Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• John 15:23–25He who hates me, hates my Father also.
• 1 Kgs 22:8The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”
• Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
• Isa 49:7Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

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