Jesus in the New Testament

as declaring that those who kill His followers do so because they do not know God

Joh 16:2-3, 1Jn 3:1; 1Jn 3:13 [compare]compare Joh 7:7, Joh 8:23, Joh 14:17, Joh 15:18-19, Joh 16:33, Joh 17:14, 1Co 2:12, 1Co 4:13, 2Co 4:4, Eph 6:12, Jas 4:4, 1Jn 5:19


John 16:2-3

2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

1 John 3:1

1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

1 John 3:13

13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

John 7:7

7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

John 8:23

23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 14:17

17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

John 15:18-19

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 16:33

33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 17:14

14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

1 Corinthians 2:12

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

1 Corinthians 4:13

13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

2 Corinthians 4:4

4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Ephesians 6:12

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

James 4:4

4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

1 John 5:19

19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.