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If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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Expect Opposition
Commentators emphasize that Jesus is preparing his followers for an inevitable reality, not a mere possibility. The phrase 'If the world hate you' is understood as 'Since the world hates you.' This opposition is presented as a normal experience for believers because, as followers of Christ, they no longer conform to the world's values.
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John
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If the world hate you. The friendship of the world they were not to expect, but they were not to be deterred from their work by its hatred…
If the world hateth you (ε ο κοσμος υμας μισε). Condition of the first class. As it certainly does.
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19th Century
Anglican
If the world hate you.—He has spoken of their close union with Himself, and of their love to each other. He proceeds in t…
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Baptist
You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: t…
The term “world” (GK 3180) has several uses in John’s writings: the universe as the object of creation (1:10), the materialistic order that allures…
16th Century
Protestant
If the world hate you. After having armed the Apostles for the battle, Christ likewise exhorts them to patience; for the Gospel cannot be …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If the world hate you After our Lord had signified how much he loved his disciples and what great things he had done…
How little do many people think, that in opposing the doctrine of Christ as our Prophet, Priest, and King, they prove themselves ignorant of the on…
13th Century
Catholic
1. After presenting the image of the vine and the branches and explaining how the branches are united to the vine, our Lord now explains the…
