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John 15:19 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. "
John 15:19
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
21 But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
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John 15:1
"“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer."
John 15:2
"Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit."
John 15:3
"You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you."
John 15:4
"Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me."
John 15:5
"I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing."
John 15:6
"If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned."
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