Everyone will hate you because of me.
Everyone will hate you because you follow me, but those who endure until the end will be saved.
Then they will arrest you, they will persecute you, and they will kill you. All people will hate you because of me.
Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and accuse you of all kinds of evil things because of me.
You will be hated by everyone because of me, but whoever endures until the end will be saved.
You will be betrayed even by your parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will kill some of you.
But not a single hair of your head will be lost.
How happy are you when people hate you, exclude you, insult you, and curse your name as evil because of me, the Son of man.
If you were part of this world, it would love you as its own. But you're not part of the world, and I chose you out of the world—that's why the world hates you.
But everything they do to you will be because of me, for they don't know the one who sent me.
I gave them your message, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I'm not of the world.
The world has no reason to hate you, but it does hate me, because I make it clear that its ways are evil.
I will show him what he'll have to suffer for my name's sake.”
So I appreciate weaknesses, insults, troubles, persecutions, and difficulties that I suffer for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong!
While we live we are always under the threat of death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal bodies.
We are not promoting ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord. In fact we are your servants for Jesus' sake.
For you have been given the privilege not only of trusting in Jesus, but suffering for him as well.
If you are cursed in Christ's name, you're blessed, for God's glorious Spirit rests on you.
I know about your patience, and what you endured for my sake—and that you didn't give up!
