You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
Parallel translations
- KJV And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
- BSB And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.
- NKJV And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.
- NASB and you will be hated by all people because of My name.
- NLT And everyone will hate you because you are my followers.
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Cross-references · 16
- John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
- John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
- 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
- Matt 24:9Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
- 2 Cor 4:11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
- Rev 2:3You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
- Mark 13:13You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
- Phil 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
- Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
- John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
- John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- Matt 5:11“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- 1 Pet 4:14If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
- 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
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