Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by everyone for being loyal to me. But the person who endures [this persecution by remaining faithful] to the end [of his life] is the one who will be saved [i.e., from spiritual and physical destruction].
John 3:19-21
Now this is [how God's] judgment [works]: The Light [See 1:5-9] has come into the world, but people loved darkness [i.e., sin] rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about its deeds, that they are evil.
John 15:18-19
"If the world hates you, then know that it has [already] hated me, [even] before it hated you.
John 17:14
I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.
Galatians 4:16
So then, have I [now] become your enemy because I have told you the truth [about your condition]?
Revelation 11:7-10
And when they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the pit [See 13:1ff; 17:3,7] will wage war against them, and overpower and kill them.