John 15:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law , They hated me without a cause.

John 15:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 109:3
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Psalms 69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Psalms 35:19
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Luke 24:44
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
2 Corinthians 11:7
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bigotry Godlessness Hatred Intolerance, Religious Malice

Commentary

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 t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 25)

22-25. (See on Joh 9:39-41). If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin--comparatively none; all other sins being light compared with the rejection of the Son of God. now they have no cloak for their sin--rather, “pretext.”