7 Bible Verses about Hated Saints

Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, "May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy." But they will be put to shame.

"Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

You will be hated by everyone because of my name.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.