and you will be hated by all people because of My name.
Parallel translations
- WEB You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
- 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.
- NLT And everyone will hate you because you are my followers.
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Quick answer
Christ's followers will be hated by all for the sake of His name.
Overview
Jesus prepares His disciples for widespread hostility because of their allegiance to Him. The world that rejected the Master will also reject His servants. This hatred is not a sign of God's disfavor but of genuine identification with Christ.
Cross-references & the web
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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