The World’s Hatred

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you.^(A)

¹³ Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.^(A)

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.^(A)

¹³ and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.^(A)

²² “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you^[a] on account of the Son of Man.^(A)

²³ Whoever hates me hates my Father also.^{(A) 24} If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.^{(B) 25} It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’^(C)

²⁰ For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.^(A)

²² and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.^(A)

¹¹ “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely^[a] on my account.^(A)

³ And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.