“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
“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!
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
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.
Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”
And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
“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.
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
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