“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

“Then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

And at that time many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

Salvation from our enemies, And from the hand of all who hate us;

Blessed are you when the people hate you, and when they exclude you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

“But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.”

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

and you will be hated by all people because of My name.

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its deeds are evil.

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

The one who hates Me hates My Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me for no reason.’

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

For I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate.

Just as it is written: “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.”