John 7:7

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

1 Kings 21:20

Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."

Psalm 109:5

So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 8:36

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

Isaiah 29:21

who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.

Isaiah 49:7

Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, "Violence and destruction!" For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.

Leviticus 13:10

and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,

Zechariah 11:8

In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

Malachi 3:5

"Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

Luke 6:26

"Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did 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 judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Romans 8:7

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Galatians 4:16

Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?[4]

James 4:4

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 John 4:5

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.