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, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Luke 6:26
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
James 4:4
You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an 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 has hated me before it hated you.
John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who 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, and they shall worship; because of the LORD who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Romans 8:7
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
1 John 3:12
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Because

John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
1 Kings 21:20
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.
1 Kings 22:8
The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil." Jehoshaphat said, "Do not let the king say so."
Proverbs 9:7
He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn't love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.
Isaiah 29:21
who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.
Jeremiah 20:8
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, "Violence and destruction." because the word of the LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
Amos 7:7
Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
Malachi 3:5
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 perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and do not fear me," says the LORD of hosts.
Luke 11:39
The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
Acts 5:28
saying, "Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood on us."
Acts 7:51
"You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so you do.
Galatians 4:16
So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Revelation 11:5
If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

General references

Proverbs 29:27
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
John 15:18
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.