John‬ ‭15‬:‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
”“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.“
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Our values and way of doing things as believers should be very different from the way the people around us who are non-believers do things. For this reason, there’s bound to be persecution and this shouldn’t surprise us.