If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not be astonished at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest watches; so there are those higher than they.

Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born from above.

And when Peter saw it, he answered the people: Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this one? Or why do you gaze on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

And you will be hated by everyone on account of My name. But he who endures to the end will be kept safe.

Then they will deliver you up to affliction and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

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

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

And you will be hated by all because of My name.

The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I bear witness of it that its works are evil.

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

They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction; but be of good courage, I have overcome the world.

I have given them Your Word; and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can be.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore purposes to be a friend of the world is shown to be opposing God.