14 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians
Most Relevant Verses
You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
They hate him who reproves in the gate,
And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
