14 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians
Most Relevant Verses
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;
Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.
having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;
but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,
for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.
Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens. Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake -- rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.