Cross reference

1 John 3:13

13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

John 17:14

14 I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 15:18-19

18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Revelation 17:7

7 The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

James 4:4

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Timothy 3:12

12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Romans 8:7

7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Acts 3:12

12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

John 16:33

33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

John 16:2

2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

John 7:7

7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

John 3:7

7 Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

Luke 21:17

17 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

Luke 6:22

22 Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

Mark 13:13

13 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

Matthew 10:22

22 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

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