John 7:7

New Living Translation

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

“So, my enemy, you have found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah. “Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the Lord’s sight.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, “There is one more man who could consult the Lord for us, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but trouble for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat replied, “That’s not the way a king should talk! Let’s hear what he has to say.”

Psalm 109:5

They repay evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Proverbs 15:12

Mockers hate to be corrected, so they stay away from the wise.

Proverbs 8:36

But those who miss me injure themselves. All who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 29:21

Those who convict the innocent by their false testimony will disappear. A similar fate awaits those who use trickery to pervert justice and who tell lies to destroy the innocent.

Isaiah 49:7

The Lord, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by the nations, to the one who is the servant of rulers: “Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will also bow low because of the Lord, the faithful one, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Jeremiah 20:8

When I speak, the words burst out. “Violence and destruction!” I shout. So these messages from the Lord have made me a household joke.

Leviticus 13:10

If the priest finds a white swelling on the skin, and some hair on the spot has turned white, and there is an open sore in the affected area,

Zechariah 11:8

I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

Malachi 3:5

“At that time I will put you on trial. I am eager to witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Luke 6:26

What sorrow awaits you who are praised by the crowds, for their ancestors also praised false prophets.

John 17:14

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

John 3:19

And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.

Romans 8:7

For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

Galatians 4:16

Have I now become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

James 4:4

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.

1 John 4:5

Those people belong to this world, so they speak from the world’s viewpoint, and the world listens to them.