"If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because
you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you." -John 15:18-19
We should look at the coming persecution as an opportunity to suffer for Christ. The Roman martyrs would probably have preferred a peaceful Christian society, but they realized God put them in their particular state of life for a reason and joyfully obeyed.
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