19If 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. …
I 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. …
According 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: …
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. …
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.
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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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