John 15:18
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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John 15:18
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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kosmos · Greek Noun
The system of human society, culture, and ideologies that is organized apart from God and is frequently characterized by opposition to His kingdom and values.
miseō · Greek Verb
An intense, settled hostility or aversion. Biblically, it describes the reaction of those who reject God toward those who reflect His righteousness.
vincentJohn 15:18: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."
If the world hate (εἱ μισεῖ)Literally, hates. The indicative mood with the conditional particle assumes the fact as existing: If the world hates you, as it does.Ye know (γινώσκετε)This may also be rendered as imperative: Know ye.It hated (μεμίσηκεν)The perfect tense, hath hated. The hatred continues to the present time.Before it hated you (πρῶτον ὑμῶν)Literally, first in regard of you. See on John 1:15.
cambridgeJohn 15:18: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you."
18 . ye know that it hated me ] Better, know that it hath hated me (comp. John 15:20 ). As in John 14:1 the principal verb may be either indicative or imperative, and the imperative is preferable: the second verb is the perfect indicative, of that which has been and still is the case. before it hated you ] ‘It hated’ is an insertion by our translators, and ‘before you’ is literally ‘first of you,’ like ‘before me…
John 15:18 reads: "“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you." — see the full explanation above for context and original-language notes.
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