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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in WEB.
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Don't let the king say so."
He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Then 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.
Blessed 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.
The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.