John 15:21

“And you will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

“Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

“And those are the ones which were sown on the good soil: they who hear the word and accept it and are bearing fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

“And you will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

and you have not known Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

“If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

“These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

“These things they will do because they did not know the Father or Me.

“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

“O righteous Father, although the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me;

“And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

“But lest it spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name.”

So they went on their way from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for the Name.

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we would be called children of God; and we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

For they went out for the sake of the Name, receiving nothing from the Gentiles.

and you have perseverance and have endured for My name’s sake, you also have not grown weary.