“If the world hate you, yee know that it hated me before it hated you.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
- King James Version
"If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before {it hated} you.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before `it hated' you.
- American Standard Version (1901)
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
- Basic English Bible
If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.
- Darby Bible
If the world hateth you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
- Webster's Bible
If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.
- Weymouth Bible
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- World English Bible
If the world hatith you, wite ye, that it hadde me in hate rather than you.
- Wycliffe Bible
if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for John 15:18
Joh 15:18 If the world hate you. "The world" is the unregenerate portion of mankind. It hated and slew the Lord. It has never loved his disciples. Satan is its prince.