John 7:7

Weymouth NT

It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

Cross References

Luke 6:26

»Alas for you when men shall all have spoken well of you; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the false Prophets!«

John 17:14

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 3:19

And this is the test by which men are judged–the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than they loved the Light, because their deeds were wicked.

Romans 8:7

Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so.

Galatians 4:16

Can it be that I have become your enemy through speaking the truth to you?

James 4:4

You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.

1 John 4:5

They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.