Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
You will be hated by all for my name's sake.
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.
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
“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.
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
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