John 7:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about its deeds, that they are evil.

Cross References

Luke 6:26

It is too bad for you people when everyone speaks well about you, because the forefathers said the same thing about the false prophets.

John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

John 3:19

Now this is [how God’s] judgment [works]: The Light [See 1:5-9] has come into the world, but people loved darkness [i.e., sin] rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.

Romans 8:7

This is because the one whose mind is [controlled] by the flesh is an enemy of God; for he is not obedient to God’s law, and in fact, cannot obey it.

Galatians 4:16

So then, have I [now] become your enemy because I have told you the truth [about your condition]?

James 4:4

You people who have become unfaithful to God, do you not know that being [intimate] friends with the world [of sin] means hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever determines to be an [intimate] friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 John 4:5

These [false teachers] are part of the world, so [naturally] they speak [a message endorsed] by the world and the world listens to them.