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Selected Verse: John 15:19 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 15:19 |
King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
If ye were of the world - If you were actuated by the principles of the world. If, like them, you were vain, earthly, sensual, given to pleasure, wealth, ambition, they would not oppose you.
Because ye are not of the world - Because you are influenced by different principles from men of the world. You are actuated by the love of God and holiness; they by the love of sin.
I have chosen you out of the world - I have, by choosing you to be my followers, separated you from their society, and placed you under the government of my holy laws.
Therefore ... - A Christian may esteem it as one evidence of his piety that he is hated by wicked men. Often most decided evidence is given that a man is the friend of God by the opposition excited against him by the profane, by Sabbath-breakers, and by the dissolute, Jo1 3:13; Joh 7:7. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
the world
Greek, "kosmos", means "world-system". (Joh 16:11); (Joh 16:33); (Joh 7:7).
(See Scofield) - (Rev 13:8).
out of the world
Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind".
(See Scofield) - (Mat 4:8). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Of the world (ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου)
Sprung out of the world. See on of the earth, Joh 3:31.
Would love (ἂν ἐφίλει)
The verb for natural affection. See on Joh 5:20. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Because ye are not of the world, therefore the world hateth you - Because your maxims, tempers, actions, are quite opposite to theirs. For the very same reason must the world in all ages hate those who are not of the world. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Ye are not of the world - therefore, etc. - On this very account, because ye do not join in fellowship with those who know not God, therefore they hate you. How true is that saying: -
"The laws of Christ condemn a vicious world,
And goad it to revenge!"
Gambold. |
7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.