Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Jesus addresses his disciples directly in the Sermon on the Plain, moving from beatitudes for present suffering (hunger, weeping) to the specific persecution that will follow identification with him.

The words — Makarioi (blessed) repeats from the preceding verses but now attaches to a condition no earlier beatitude named: active hatred. Misēsōsin (hate) is aorist subjunctive under hotan (when), marking the hatred as a future certainty rather than a present reality.

The thread — Matthew 5:10-12 gives the parallel beatitude for persecution "for my name's sake," and Matthew 10:22 extends it to universal hatred. 1 Peter 4:12 picks up the same note: do not be surprised.

Why it lands — It forecloses the option of being caught off guard and asks the reader to treat persecution not as a sign of failure but as the expected cost of alignment with Christ.

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The Greek words

King James Version

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

Cross-references

Matthew 5:10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:22 You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
1 Peter 3:14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”
1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,
Isaiah 66:5 You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
Philippians 1:28 without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
2 Timothy 3:11 my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.