1 John 3:13

New Living Translation

So don’t be surprised, dear brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:27

The righteous despise the unjust; the wicked despise the godly.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don’t be surprised if you see a poor person being oppressed by the powerful and if justice is being miscarried throughout the land. For every official is under orders from higher up, and matters of justice get lost in red tape and bureaucracy.

Matthew 10:22

And all nations will hate you because you are my followers. But everyone who endures to the end will be saved.

Matthew 24:9

“Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers.

Mark 13:13

And everyone will hate you because you are my followers. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke 21:17

And everyone will hate you because you are my followers.

Luke 6:22

What blessings await you when people hate you and exclude you and mock you and curse you as evil because you follow the Son of Man.

John 16:2

For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.

John 16:33

I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

John 17:14

I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 3:7

So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’

John 7:7

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.

Acts 3:12

Peter saw his opportunity and addressed the crowd. “People of Israel,” he said, “what is so surprising about this? And why stare at us as though we had made this man walk by our own power or godliness?

Romans 8:7

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

2 Timothy 3:12

Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

James 4:4

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

Revelation 17:7

“Why are you so amazed?” the angel asked. “I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns on which she sits.