I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
The righteous detest the dishonest; the wicked detest the upright.
In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them
“We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with,
They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.
For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.
Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.