It's natural that the sinful world will hate and persecute Christians--it recognizes that it has no hold over them, and it hates them for it. Christians can expect to be rejected by a world that operates under radically different values than their own.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2015:19&version=NIV
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