1 John 3:13
Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.
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- John 17:14 : 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
- John 15:18-19 : 18 The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
- John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
- John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”
- Acts 3:12 : 12 When Peter saw this, he declared to the people,“Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?
- Rom 8:7 : 7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
- 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
- Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
- Rev 17:7 : 7 But the angel said to me,“Why are you astounded? I will interpret for you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns that carries her.
- Eccl 5:8 : 8 Government Corruption If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!
- Matt 10:22 : 22 And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved!
- Matt 24:9 : 9 Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
- Mark 13:13 : 13 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
- Luke 6:22 : 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
- Luke 21:17 : 17 You will be hated by everyone because of my name.
- John 3:7 : 7 Do not be amazed that I said to you,‘You must all be born from above.’
- John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
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10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.
11 God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,
12 not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.
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14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.
15 Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?
18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.
- John 15:17-193 verses79%
17 This I command you– to love one another.
18 The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
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7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
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15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,
16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
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9 The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.
10 The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
11 But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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20 If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
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23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.
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16 Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.
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12 Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
13 You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
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19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
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17 You will be hated by everyone because of my name.
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15 Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
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9 Resist him, strong in your faith, because you know that your brothers and sisters throughout the world are enduring the same kinds of suffering.
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13 But you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary in doing what is right.
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9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be judged. See, the judge stands before the gates!
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12 Dear friends, do not be astonished that a trial by fire is occurring among you, as though something strange were happening to you.
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5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.
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13 For who is going to harm you if you are devoted to what is good?
14 But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.
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11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
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1 Final Exhortations Brotherly love must continue.
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14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
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1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.
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35 Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”
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4 Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.
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43 Love for Enemies“You have heard that it was said,‘Love your neighbor’ and‘hate your enemy.’
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25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’
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21 “Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
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9 Persecution of Disciples“Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
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22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
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5 (For not even his own brothers believed in him.)
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7 Do not be amazed that I said to you,‘You must all be born from above.’