12 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, that man shall be saved.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you.

Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

Then shall they deliver you up to affliction, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents,

But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, "They hated me without a cause."

Now this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

For the discourse, [the subject of which is] the cross, is indeed to those who perish, folly; but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

for the name of God is blasphemed through you among the heathen, as it is written.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for their's is the kingdom in heaven. Blessed are ye, when they shall revile and persecute you, and lying, speak every thing evil against you for my sake. Rejoice and exult; for plenteous is your reward in the heavens: for just so they persecuted the prophets who went before you.