Proverbs 8:36
36but he who fails to find me ainjures himself;all who bhate me clove death.”
Isaiah 49:7
7 Thus says the Lord,dthe Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
eto one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
the servant of rulers:
f“Kings shall see and arise;
princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Zechariah 11:8
8In one month gI destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.John 15:18-19
The Hatred of the World
18 h“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 iIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because jyou are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.John 15:23-25
23 kWhoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 lIf I had not done among them the works that no one else did, mthey would not be guilty of sin, but now they have nseen and hated both me and my Father. 25But othe word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: p‘They hated me without a cause.’John 17:14
14 qI have given them your word, and rthe world has hated them sbecause they are not of the world, tjust as I am not of the world.Romans 8:7
7For the mind that is set on the flesh is uhostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; vindeed, it cannot.
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