A moment in scripture
John 15:19
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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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The surrounding passage
- John 15:17
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
- John 15:18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
- John 15:20
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.
- John 15:21
But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.