John 7:7
7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
John 15:18-21
The World’s Hatred
15:18 “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.
15:19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
15:20 Remember what I told you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
15:21 But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.
Genesis 3:15
3:15 And I will put hostility between you and the woman
and between your offspring and her offspring;
her offspring will attack your head,
and you will attack her offspring’s heel.”
Proverbs 29:27
29:27 An unjust person is an abomination to the righteous,
and the one who lives an upright life is an abomination to the wicked.
Zechariah 11:8
11:8 Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month,
for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well.
Matthew 10:24-25
10:24 “A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a slave greater than his master.
10:25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house ‘Beelzebul,’ how much more will they defame the members of his household!
Matthew 10:1
Sending Out the Twelve Apostles
10:1 Jesus called his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits so they could cast them out and heal every kind of disease and sickness.
Matthew 4:4-5
4:4 But he answered,
“It is written, ‘
Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
4:5 Then the devil took him to the holy city,
had him stand
on the highest point
of the temple,
Matthew 4:1
The Temptation of Jesus
4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Matthew 3:12
3:12 His winnowing fork
is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse,
but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”