John 15:18

The World's Hatred For The Disciples

¹⁷ This is what I command you: Love one another. ¹⁸ “If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Do Not Forget

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1 John 3:13

Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

Isaiah 49:7

This is what the Lord,
the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says
to one who is despised,
to one abhorred by people,
to a servant of rulers:
“Kings will see and stand up,
and princes will bow down,
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel—and He has chosen you.”

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.
He was like someone people turned away from;
He was despised, and we didn’t value Him.

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Matthew 5:11

“You are blessed when they insult and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

Matthew 24:9

“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Mark 13:13

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

Luke 6:22

You are blessed when people hate you,
when they exclude you, insult you,
and slander your name as evil
because of the Son of Man.

John 3:20

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

John 15:23-25

The one who hates Me also hates My Father.

Hebrews 12:2

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

James 4:4

Adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? So whoever wants to be the world’s friend becomes God’s enemy.

1 John 3:1

Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.