Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

This, however, was bound to happen so that what is written in their Law may come true: 'They hated me for no reason at all.'

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

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

Ahab answered, "There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me; it's always something bad." "You shouldn't say that!" Jehoshaphat replied.

Israel's holy God and savior says to the one who is deeply despised, who is hated by the nations and is the servant of rulers: "Kings will see you released and will rise to show their respect; princes also will see it, and they will bow low to honor you." This will happen because the LORD has chosen his servant; the holy God of Israel keeps his promises.

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.

I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.

"Happy are you when people insult you and persecute you and tell all kinds of evil lies against you because you are my followers.

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

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

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

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

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

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.

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children---and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.

Everyone who has this hope in Christ keeps himself pure, just as Christ is pure.

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