⁹ “^(A)Then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you, and ^(B)you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

²¹ “Now ^(A)brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and ^(B)children will rise up against parents and ^[a]cause them to be put to death. ²² And ^(C)you will be hated by all because of My name, but ^(D)it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

²³ “But whenever they ^(E)persecute you in ^[b]one city, flee to the ^[c]next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel ^(F)until the Son of Man comes.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

¹⁸ “^(A)If the world hates you, ^[a]you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but ^(B)I chose you out of the world, ^(C)because of this the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember the word that I said to you, ‘^(D)A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, ^(E)they will persecute you as well; if they ^(F)followed My word, they will follow yours also. ²¹ But all these things they will do to you ^(G)on account of My name, ^(H)because they do not know the One who sent Me.

Jesus’ Warning

16 “^(A)These things I have spoken to you so that you will not ^[a]be ^(B)led into sin. ² They will ^[b](C)ban you from the synagogue, yet ^(D)an hour is coming for everyone ^(E)who kills you to think that he is offering a ^[c]service to God. ³ These things they will do ^(F)because they have not known the Father nor Me. ⁴ But these things I have spoken to you, ^(G)so that when their hour comes, you ^[d]may remember that I told you of them. However, I did not say these things to you ^(H)at the beginning, because I was with you.

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

^11 (A)persecutions, and ^(B)sufferings, such as happened to me at ^(C)Antioch, at ^(D)Iconium, and at ^(E)Lystra; what ^(F)persecutions I endured, and out of them all ^(G)the Lord rescued me! ¹² Indeed, all who want to live in a godly way in Christ Jesus ^(H)will be persecuted.