And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
John 7:7 - King James 2000 The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The world cannot [be expected to] hate you, but it does hate Me because I denounce it for its wicked works and reveal that its doings are evil. American Standard Version (1901) The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. Common English Bible The world can’t hate you. It hates me, though, because I testify that its works are evil. Catholic Public Domain Version The world cannot hate you. But it hates me, because I offer testimony about it, that its works are evil. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil. |
And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.
But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he has chosen you.
For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and plunder; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the swelling is white in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a spot of raw flesh in the swelling;
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their souls also abhorred me.
And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says the LORD of hosts.
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
They are of the world: therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.