John 7:7

New King James Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

So Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord:

1 Kings 22:8

So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!”

Psalm 109:5

Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 29:21

Who make a man an offender by a word, And lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, And turn aside the just by empty words.

Isaiah 49:7

Thus says the Lord, The Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To the Servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the Lord who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel; And He has chosen You.”

Jeremiah 20:8

For when I spoke, I cried out; I shouted, “Violence and plunder!” Because the word of the Lord was made to me A reproach and a derision daily.

Leviticus 13:10

And the priest shall examine him; and indeed if the swelling on the skin is white, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a spot of raw flesh in the swelling,

Zechariah 11:8

I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien— Because they do not fear Me,” Says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 6:26

Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets.

John 17:14

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.

John 3:19

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

Galatians 4:16

Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

James 4:4

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 makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them.