John 15:18

"If the world hates you, you should realize that it hated me before you.

1 John 3:13

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

1 Kings 22:8

"There is still one man left by whom we could ask the LORD what to do," the king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, "but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me. Instead, he prophesies evil. He is Imla's son Micaiah." But Jehoshaphat rebuked Ahab, "Kings should never talk like that."

Isaiah 49:7

"This is what my Lord says the LORD your Redeemer, O Israel, and his Holy One to one despised by people, to those abhorred as a nation, to the servant of rulers: "Kings see and arise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, the one who has chosen you."

Isaiah 53:3

"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.

Zechariah 11:8

In a single month I got rid of three shepherds because I grew tired of them, and they despised me.

Matthew 5:11

"How blessed are you whenever people insult you, persecute you, and say all sorts of evil things against you falsely because of me!

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

"Then they'll hand you over to suffer and will kill you, and you'll be hated by all the nations because of my name.

Mark 13:13

You will be hated continuously by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved."

Luke 6:22

"How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!

John 3:20

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

John 15:23-25

The person who hates me also hates my Father.

Hebrews 12:2

fixing our attention on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of the joy set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

James 4:4

You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.

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