John 7:7

American Standard Version (1901)

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

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  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
  • John 3:19 : 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
  • Prov 9:7-8 : 7 He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man [getteth] himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So then am I become your enemy, by telling you the truth?
  • 1 John 4:5 : 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they [as] of the world, and the world heareth them.
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.
  • Prov 8:36 : 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
  • 1 Kgs 21:20 : 20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • Acts 5:28-33 : 28 saying, We strictly charged you not to teach in this name: and behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29 But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men. 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree. 31 Him did God exalt with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. 32 And we are witnesses of these things; and [so is] the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him. 33 But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and minded to slay them.
  • John 15:23-25 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
  • Isa 29:21 : 21 that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
  • Isa 49:7 : 7 Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Jehovah that is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
  • Jer 20:8 : 8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.
  • Amos 7:7-9 : 7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. 8 And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more; 9 and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13 but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.
  • Zech 11:8 : 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the 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, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • Luke 6:26 : 26 Woe [unto you], when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.
  • Luke 11:39-54 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also? 41 But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you. 42 But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 43 Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces. 44 Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] know it not. 45 And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also. 46 And he said, Woe unto you lawyers also! for ye load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 So ye are witnesses and consent unto the works of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build [their tombs] . 49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they shall kill and persecute; 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation. 52 Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. 53 And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things; 54 laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
  • Rev 11:5-9 : 5 And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed. 6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies [lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do [men] look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb. 10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth. 11 And after the three days and a half the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them that beheld them.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
  • 1 John 3:12-13 : 12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers; 53 ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not. 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

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    13 But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

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    23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

    24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

    25 But [this cometh to pass], that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

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    12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

    13 Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.

  • 8 Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.

  • 6 Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready.

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    19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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  • 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

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    1 These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to stumble.

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  • 17 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

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    30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me;

    31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

  • 27 But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

  • 37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

  • 26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world.

  • 36 But the witness which I have is greater than [that of] John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

  • 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

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    45 But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

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    10 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;

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  • 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? [Even] because ye cannot hear my word.

  • 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

  • 34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, ye cannot come.

  • 4 For no man doeth anything in secret, and himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou doest these things, manifest thyself to the world.

  • 9 Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

  • 1 And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

  • 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believe not: the works that I do in my Father's name, these bear witness of me.

  • 43 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:

  • 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they [as] of the world, and the world heareth them.

  • 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

  • 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

  • 21 He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come.

  • 13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

  • 13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

  • 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

  • 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

  • 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;