Everyone will hate you because you are committed to me.
Everyone will hate you because you are committed to me. But the person who patiently endures to the end will be saved.
“Then they will hand you over to those who will torture and kill you. All nations will hate you because you are committed to me.
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, lie, and say all kinds of evil things about you because of me.
Everyone will hate you because you are committed to me. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
“Even parents, brothers, relatives, and friends will betray you and kill some of you.
But not a hair on your head will be lost.
Blessed are you when people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because you are committed to the Son of Man.
If you had anything in common with the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But you don’t have anything in common with the world. I chose you from the world, and that’s why the world hates you.
Indeed, they will do all this to you because you are committed to me, since they don’t know the one who sent me.
I have given them your message. But the world has hated them because they don’t belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I say that what everyone does is evil.
I’ll show him how much he has to suffer for the sake of my name.”
Therefore, I accept weakness, mistreatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties suffered for Christ. It’s clear that when I’m weak, I’m strong.
While we are alive, we are constantly handed over to death for Jesus’ sake so that the life of Jesus is also shown in our mortal nature.
Our message is not about ourselves. It is about Jesus Christ as the Lord. We are your servants for his sake.
God has given you the privilege not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for him.
If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed because the Spirit of glory—the Spirit of God—is resting on you.
You have endured, suffered trouble because of my name, and have not grown weary.
