Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

World

John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Luke 6:26
Wo unto you when all men speak well of you; for their fathers did the same to the false prophets.
James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world; therefore they speak as men of the world, and the world heareth them.

But

John 15:18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Romans 8:7
because the carnal mind is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be:
1 John 3:12
and why did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Because

John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Luke 11:39
But the Lord said unto him, ye pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness.
Acts 5:28
saying, Did not we strictly charge you not to teach in this name? and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and would bring this man's blood upon us.
Acts 7:51
Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Galatians 4:16
And am I become your enemy for telling you the truth?
Revelation 11:5
And if any one seek to injure them, fire cometh out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: yea, if any one shall desire to injure them, thus shall he be slain.

General references

John 8:45
And because I say the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convicteth me of sin?
John 15:18
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first.