1 John 3:13
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13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if (A)the world hates you.
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John 15:18-19
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The World’s Hatred
18 (A)“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 (B)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet (C)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
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John 17:14
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14 I have given them Your word; (A)and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, (B)just as I am not of the world.
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Luke 21:17
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17 And (A)you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.
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James 4:4
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4 [a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that (A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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- James 4:4 NU omits Adulterers and
2 Timothy 3:12
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12 Yes, and (A)all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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Mark 13:13
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13 (A)And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But (B)he who [a]endures to the end shall be saved.
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- Mark 13:13 bears patiently
Romans 8:7
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7 Because (A)the [a]carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, (B)nor indeed can be.
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- Romans 8:7 fleshly
John 16:33
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33 These things I have spoken to you, that (A)in Me you may have peace. (B)In the world you [a]will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, (C)I have overcome the world.”
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- John 16:33 NU, M omit will
John 7:7
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7 (A)The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me (B)because I testify of it that its works are evil.
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Luke 6:22
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22 (A)Blessed are you when men hate you,
And when they (B)exclude you,
And revile you, and cast out your name as evil,
For the Son of Man’s sake.
Matthew 24:9
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9 (A)“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.
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Matthew 10:22
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22 And (A)you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. (B)But he who endures to the end will be saved.
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