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Salvation In Spite of Hate – Mark 13:13

Key Passage

“All people will hate you because you follow me. But the person that continues strong until the end will be saved.”

— Mark 13:13 ERV (Read Full Text)

Key Thought

Even when our situation makes us feel like everyone is against us, we can endure … we must endure … we will endure. When we are faithful, when we endure, we can be certain that our future is with the Savior and great things await us at his return!

Prayer

Give me strength, O LORD God Almighty, to endure to the end and find your glorious welcome into your eternal Kingdom of mercy, grace, and joy. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Related Scriptures

Don’t be afraid of the things that will happen to you. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison. He will do this to test you. You will suffer for ten days. But be faithful, even if you have to die. If you continue faithful, then I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 2:10

Can anything separate us from Christ’s love? No! Can trouble separate us from Christ’s love? No! Can problems or persecution separate us from Christ’s love? No! If we have no food or clothes, will that separate us from Christ’s love? No! Will danger or even death separate us from Christ’s love? No! Like it is written in the Scriptures : “For you (Christ) we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.” But in all these things we have full victory through God who showed his love for us. Yes, I am sure that nothing can separate us from God’s love—not death, not life, not angels or ruling spirits. I am sure that nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us or nothing below us—nothing in the whole created world—will ever be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39

Christ suffered while he was in his body. So you should strengthen yourselves with the same kind of thinking Christ had. The person who has suffered in his body is finished with sin. {Strengthen yourselves} so that you will live your lives here on earth doing what God wants, not doing the evil things that people want. In the past you wasted too much time doing the things that the non-believers like to do. You were doing sexual sins. You were doing the evil things you wanted. You were becoming drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, having drunken parties, and doing wrong by worshiping idols (false gods). Those non-believers think that it is strange that you don’t do the many wild and wasteful things that they do. And so they say bad things about you.
1 Peter 4:1-4

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