14 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end--this one will be saved.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes [himself] an enemy of God.

"Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name.

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents,

But they will do all these [things] to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

But [this happened] so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.'

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.

So then, have I become your enemy [by] being truthful to you?

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For just as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me. Rejoice and be glad, because your reward [is] great in heaven, for in the [same] way they persecuted the prophets before you.