12 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

and ye shall be hated by all the world for professing my name: but he that perseveres unto the end, shall escape.

if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

then shall they deliver you up to torments, and to death: and ye shall be hated by all nations upon my account.

they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment,

but all these things will they do unto you, out of hatred to my name, because they know not him that sent me.

so that the passage is fulfilled that is written in their law, "they hated me without a cause."

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

am I now become your enemy in continuing to tell you the truth?

For tho' the doctrine of the cross seems folly to those that perish: yet we that are to be saved, do feel its energy is divine.

for (as it is written) the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles by your miscarriages.

Blessed are they who are persecuted upon the account of righteousness: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed shall you be when men shall revile and persecute you, and falsely charge you with all manner of evil for your attachment to me. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great will be your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.