1 John 3:13

God Is Love, So Love One Another

¹² We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright. ¹³ You must not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love our brothers. Whoever does not continue to love continues still in death.

Of the World

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John 17:14

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

John 15:18-19

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

At that time they will turn you over to torture, and will murder you, and you will be hated by all the heathen, because you bear my name.

Mark 13:13

You will be hated by everybody, because you bear my name. But whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

Luke 21:17

and you will be continuously hated by everyone, because you bear my name.

John 3:7

Never wonder at my telling you that you must all be born from above.

John 7:7

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

John 16:2

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

Acts 3:12

When Peter saw this, he said to the people, "Fellow Israelites, why are you so surprised at this? Why do you keep staring at us, as though we had by our own power or piety made this man walk?

Romans 8:7

Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

James 4:4

You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.

Revelation 17:7

but the angel said to me: "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the symbolical meaning of the woman, and the wild beast with seven heads and ten horns, that carries her.