John 7:7

Good News Translation

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said, “Have you caught up with me, my enemy?” “Yes, I have,” Elijah answered. “You have devoted yourself completely to doing what is wrong in the Lord's sight.

1 Kings 22:8

Ahab answered, “There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me; it's always something bad.” “You shouldn't say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

Psalm 109:5

They pay me back evil for good and hatred for love.

Proverbs 15:12

Conceited people do not like to be corrected; they never ask for advice from those who are wiser.

Proverbs 8:36

Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death.”

Isaiah 29:21

God will destroy those who slander others, those who prevent the punishment of criminals, and those who tell lies to keep honest people from getting justice.

Isaiah 49:7

Israel's holy God and savior says to the one who is deeply despised, who is hated by the nations and is the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you released and will rise to show their respect; princes also will see it, and they will bow low to honor you.” This will happen because the Lord has chosen his servant; the holy God of Israel keeps his promises.

Jeremiah 20:8

Whenever I speak, I have to cry out and shout, “Violence! Destruction!” Lord, I am ridiculed and scorned all the time because I proclaim your message.

Leviticus 13:10

who will examine you. If there is a white sore on your skin which turns the hairs white and is full of pus,

Zechariah 11:8

I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord Almighty says, “I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners—against all who do not respect me.

Luke 6:26

“How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

John 17:14

I gave them your message, 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

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

Romans 8:7

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

James 4:4

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.

1 John 4:5

Those false prophets speak about matters of the world, and the world listens to them because they belong to the world.