12 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians
Most Relevant Verses
and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.
Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.
till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity ??slanderers, defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents,
They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.
It is that the word written in their Law may be fulfilled: they hated me for no cause.
And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;
Those who are doomed to perish find the story of the cross 'sheer folly,' but it means the power of God for those whom he saves.
Why, it is owing to you that the name of God is maligned among the Gentiles, as scripture says!
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.
