KJV King James Version
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
WEB World English Bible
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
ASV American Standard Version
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not—but I chose out of the world—because of this the world hateth you.
Surrounding context — John 15
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
εἰG1487 · eiifἐκG1537 · ekout fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμουG2889 · kosmosworldἦτε,G1510 · eimito beὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμοςG2889 · kosmosworldἂνG302 · anifτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoἴδιονG2398 · idiosone's own/privateἐφίλει·G5368 · phileōto loveὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatδὲG1161 · dethenἐκG1537 · ekout fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμουG2889 · kosmosworldοὐκG3756 · ounoἐστέ,G1510 · eimito beἀλλ᾽G235 · allabutἐγὼG1473 · egōI/weἐξελεξάμηνG1586 · eklegōto selectὑμᾶςG4771 · suyouἐκG1537 · ekout fromτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμου,G2889 · kosmosworldδιὰG1223 · diathrough/because ofτοῦτοG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itμισεῖG3404 · miseōto hateὑμᾶςG4771 · suyouὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμος.¶G2889 · kosmosworld
Cross-references
1 John 4:4-5Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.John 17:14-16I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.Ephesians 1:4-11According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:Titus 3:3-7For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.John 15:16Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.1 John 5:19-20[And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.Ephesians 2:2-5Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:1 Peter 2:9-12But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:Luke 6:32For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.1 John 3:12Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.Revelation 20:7-9And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,1 Peter 4:3For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:Revelation 12:17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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