1 John 3:13

Good News Translation

So do not be surprised, my friends, if the people of the world hate you.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:27

The righteous hate the wicked, and the wicked hate the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don't be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by someone higher, and both are protected by still higher officials.

Matthew 10:22

Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

“Then you will be arrested and handed over to be punished and be put to death. Everyone will hate you because of me.

Mark 13:13

Everyone will hate you because of me. But whoever holds out to the end will be saved.

Luke 21:17

Everyone will hate you because of me.

Luke 6:22

“Happy are you when people hate you, reject you, insult you, and say that you are evil, all because of the Son of Man!

John 16:2

You will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time will come when those who kill you will think that by doing this they are serving God.

John 16:33

I have told you this so that you will have peace by being united to me. The world will make you suffer. But be brave! I have defeated the world!”

John 17:14

I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 3:7

Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

Acts 3:12

When Peter saw the people, he said to them, “Fellow Israelites, why are you surprised at this, and why do you stare at us? Do you think that it was by means of our own power or godliness that we made this man walk?

Romans 8:7

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

2 Timothy 3:12

Everyone who wants to live a godly life in union with Christ Jesus will be persecuted;

James 4:4

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.

Revelation 17:7

“Why are you amazed?” the angel asked me. “I will tell you the secret meaning of the woman and of the beast that carries her, the beast with seven heads and ten horns.