John 7:7

New International Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!” “I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” “The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.

Psalm 109:5

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship.

Proverbs 15:12

Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 29:21

those who with a word make someone out to be guilty, who ensnare the defender in court and with false testimony deprive the innocent of justice.

Isaiah 49:7

This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel— to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Jeremiah 20:8

Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the Lord has brought me insult and reproach all day long.

Leviticus 13:10

The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Luke 6:26

Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

John 17:14

I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

John 3:19

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.

Romans 8:7

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

Galatians 4:16

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

James 4:4

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.