14 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians
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and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.