14 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

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

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

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.

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

Those who hate me without cause
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

But they will do all these things to you on account of My name, because they don’t know the One who sent Me.

But this happened so that the statement written in their scripture might be fulfilled: They hated Me for no reason.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

For, as it is written: The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.

Those who are persecuted for righteousness are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs. “You are blessed when they insult and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me. Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.