Luke 21:17
You will be the objects of universal hatred because you are called by my name;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
In Context
18and yet not a hair of your heads shall perish.
Cross References
Matthew 5:11"Blessed are you when they have insulted and persecuted you, and have said every cruel thing about you falsely for my sake.
Matthew 24:9"At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.
Luke 6:22"Blessed are you when men shall hate you and exclude you from their society and insult you, and spurn your very names as evil things, for the Son of Man's sake.
John 15:19If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own property. But because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world--for that reason the world hates you.
John 17:14I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
2 Corinthians 4:5(For we do not proclaim ourselves, but we proclaim Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants for the sake of Jesus.)
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:6-20
Judgments Predicted. 5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, 6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass? 8 And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time… Read the whole commentary →