Luke 21:17

Jesus Foretells Wars And Persecution

¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends and they will put some of you to death, ¹⁷  and you will be hated by everyone because you bear my name. ¹⁸ Yet not a hair of your head will perish!

Called by My Name

For My Name

For My Sake

Hated by All

Put to Death

Luke

John 15:21

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

Luke 6:22

"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

Matthew 10:22

You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.

Mark 13:13

You will be hated by everyone, because you bear my name. But he who holds out to the end will be saved.

John 7:7

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

John 17:14

I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Acts 9:16

For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."

2 Corinthians 4:5

For it is not myself but Christ Jesus that I am proclaiming as Lord; I am only a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

Philippians 1:29

For you have been granted the privilege not only of trusting in Christ but of suffering for him.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

Revelation 2:3

You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.