12 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.

They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice. They became back-biters, slanderers, impious, insolent, boastful. They devised new sins. They disobeyed their parents.

But they will do all this to you, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

And so is fulfilled what is said in their Law--'They hated me without cause.'

The ground of his condemnation is this, that though the Light has come into the world, men preferred the darkness to the Light, because their actions were wicked.

Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?

The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.

For, as Scripture says-'The name of God is reviled among the Gentiles because of you'!

Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account. Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.