The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first.

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

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

²² What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man.

²⁰ All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.

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

²² And all nations will hate you because you are my followers.^[a] But everyone who endures to the end will be saved.

3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

²³ Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. ²⁴ If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father. ²⁵ This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures^[a]: ‘They hated me without cause.’

¹¹ “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.