"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
John 15:18
Surrounding context
15:17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
15:18 "If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.
15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.