The Hatred of the World

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

¹³ Do not be surprised, brothers,^{[a] (A)}that the world hates you.

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

^20 (A)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ^(B)lest his works should be exposed.

²² “Blessed are you when ^(A)people hate you and when they ^(B)exclude you and revile you and ^(C)spurn your name as evil, ^(D)on account of the Son of Man!

^13 (A)And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. ^(B)But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

^22 (A)and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. ^(B)But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

3 See ^(A)what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called ^(B)children of God; and so we are. The reason why ^(C)the world does not know us is that ^(D)it did not know him.

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

^4 (A)You adulterous people!^[a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.