Luke 21:17

Jesus Foretells Wars And Persecution

¹⁶ Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death, ¹⁷  and you will be continuously hated by everyone, because you bear my name. ¹⁸ And yet not a single hair on your head will perish.

Called by My Name

For My Name

For My Sake

Hated by All

Put to Death

Luke

John 15:21

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.

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.

John 15:19

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

Matthew 5:11

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

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.

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 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.

Acts 9:16

For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

2 Corinthians 4:5

For I am not proclaiming myself but Christ Jesus as Lord, and myself a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.

2 Corinthians 12:10

So I most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the strength of Christ may overshadow me. That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ's sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong.

Philippians 1:29

For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him,

1 Peter 4:14

If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

Revelation 2:3

You are showing patient endurance, and you have borne it for my sake, and have not grown weary.