Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bible References

World

John 15:19
If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Luke 6:26
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
James 4:4
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.
1 John 4:5
They are of the world: therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

But

John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 17:14
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.
Proverbs 8:36
But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Isaiah 49:7
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.
Zechariah 11:8
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their souls also abhorred me.
Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he 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.
1 Kings 21:20
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.
1 Kings 22:8
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.
Proverbs 9:7
He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Isaiah 29:21
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.
Jeremiah 20:8
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.
Amos 7:7
Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
Malachi 3:5
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.
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Acts 5:28
Saying, Did not we strictly command you that you should not teach in this name? and, behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
Acts 7:51
You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.
Galatians 4:16
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Revelation 11:5
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceeds out of their mouth, and devours their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

General references

Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
John 8:45
And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.