12 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.

Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.

They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature. They are gossips, slanderers, abhorrent to God, insolent, overbearing, boastful, ingenious in evil, undutiful,

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

But the saying of their Law, 'They hated me without cause,' must be fulfilled.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

Have I turned into an enemy to you, by telling you the truth?

For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.

For, as the Scripture says, the very name of God is abused among the heathen, because of you!

"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them! "Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account. Be glad and exult over it, for you will be richly rewarded in heaven, for that is the way they persecuted the prophets who went before you!