18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)Here Christ discourses concerning hatred , which is the character and genius of the devil’s kingdom, as love is of the kingdom of Christ. Observe here, I. Who they are in whom this hatred is found—the world, the children of this world, as distinguished from the children of God; those who are in the interests of the god of this world, whose image they bear, and whose power they are subject to; all…
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