Luke 21:17

Jesus Foretells Wars And Persecution

¹⁶ You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and relations and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death, ¹⁷  And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. ¹⁸ Yet not a single hair of your heads shall be lost!

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, because you believe in my Name, for they do not know him who sent me.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they expel you from among them, and taunt you, and reject your Name as an evil thing--on account of the Son of Man.

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

Matthew 5:11

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

Matthew 10:22

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 24:9

When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.

Mark 13:13

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

John 17:14

I have given them thy Message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

Acts 9:16

I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."

2 Corinthians 4:5

(For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.)

2 Corinthians 4:11

Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!

Philippians 1:29

For, on behalf of Christ, you have had the privilege granted you, not only of trusting in him, but also of suffering on his behalf.

1 Peter 4:14

If you are reviled for bearing the name of Christ, count yourselves blessed; because the divine Glory and the Spirit of God are resting upon you.

Revelation 2:3

You possess endurance, and have borne much for my Name, and have never grown weary.