The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
Woe to you when men speak well of you, for in like manner their fathers would do to the false prophets.
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.
Because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed can it.
Have I therefore become your enemy by speaking the truth to you?
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is constituted an enemy of God.
They are of the world: on account of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.