If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter; for [there is] a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

So when Peter saw [this], he replied to the people: "Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk?

But the angel said to me, "Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the Beast carrying her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

And you will be hated by all [people] for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Then they will hand you over to tribulation and they will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations, on account of My name.

And you will be hated by all on account of My name. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and shall revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

And you will be hated by all [people] for My name's sake.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

"If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but have courage, I have overcome the world."

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Therefore the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.