Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Given
The world
Bible References
Given
John 17:8 For the words which You gave Me I have given them; and they received and accepted them and truly understood [with confident assurance] that I came from You [from Your presence], and they believed [without any doubt] that You sent Me.
The world
John 7:7 The world cannot hate you [since you are part of it], but it does hate Me because I denounce it and testify that its deeds are evil.
John 15:18 “If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
Genesis 3:15
“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and herSeed;
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”
“And I will put enmity (open hostility)
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed (offspring) and her
He shall [fatally] bruise your head,
And you shall [only] bruise His heel.”
Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is repulsive to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way [of the Lord] is repulsive to the wicked.
An unjust man is repulsive to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way [of the Lord] is repulsive to the wicked.
Zechariah 11:8
Then I eliminated the three [incompetent, unfit] shepherds [the civil rulers, the priests, and the prophets] in one month, for I was impatient with them, and they also were tired of me and despised me.
Matthew 10:24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor is a bond-servant above his master.
1 Peter 4:4
In [connection with] all this, they [the unbelievers] are resentful and surprised that you do not [think like them, value their values and] run [hand in hand] with them into the same excesses of dissipation and immoral freedom, and they criticize and abuse and ridicule you and make fun of your values.
1 John 3:12
and not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother [Abel]. And why did he murder him? Because Cain’s deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.
They
John 17:16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
John 8:23
He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
1 John 4:5
They [who teach twisted doctrine] are of the world and belong to it; therefore they speak from the [viewpoint of the] world [with its immoral freedom and baseless theories—demanding compliance with their opinions and ridiculing the values of the upright], and the [gullible one of the] world listens closely and pays attention to them.
1 John 5:19
We know [for a fact] that we are of God, and the whole world [around us] lies in the power of the evil one [opposing God and His precepts].