John 15:17-19

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁷ I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ ‘If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world,^[a] the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you.