12 Bible Verses about Reasons Why The World Hates Christians

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, depravity. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

But all this they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know him who sent me.

But this is to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'

And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they revile you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.