¹³ So don’t be surprised, dear brothers and sisters,^[a] if the world hates you.

The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. ¹⁹ The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.

¹⁴ I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

¹⁷ And everyone will hate you because you are my followers.^[a]

⁴ You adulterers!^[a] Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

¹² Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

¹³ And everyone will hate you because you are my followers.^[a] But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

⁷ For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

³³ I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

⁷ The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.