Luke 6:22

Jesus blesses those hated and excluded for the Son of Man's sake. Suffering for Christ is a mark of God's favor, not his absence.

Cross-references · 27

• Matt 5:10–12Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Matt 10:22You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
• 1 Pet 4:12–16Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
• 1 Pet 3:14But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
• 1 Th 2:14–15For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
• Isa 66:5Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.
• 2 Tim 3:11–12persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
• Phil 1:28–30and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
• John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
• John 12:42Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
• Matt 10:39He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
• 1 Cor 4:10–11We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
• 1 Pet 2:19–20For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
• Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
• Isa 65:5who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
• Mark 13:9–13But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
• Acts 9:16For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
• 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.
• Luke 21:17You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.
• Luke 20:15They threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do to them?
• 2 Cor 11:23–26Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
• John 9:22–28His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
• John 15:18–21If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Acts 22:22They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
• John 9:34They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.
• Matt 10:18Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

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