If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.

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

So when Peter saw [it,] he responded 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 this man walk?

But 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 all for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.

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

Blessed are you when men hate you, And when they exclude you, And revile [you,] and cast out your name as evil, For the Son of Man's sake.

"And you will be hated by all for My name's sake.

"The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of 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, 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 will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, 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.

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 wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.