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 you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.
Luke 6:26
A curse on you when everyone speaks well of you, for this is the way their forefathers used to treat the false prophets.
James 4:4
You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.
1 John 4:5
They are children of the world; this is why they speak what the world inspires, and why the world listens to them.
But
John 15:18
If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.
John 17:14
I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.
Romans 8:7
Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.
1 John 3:12
We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.
Because
John 3:19
And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.
Luke 11:39
But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.
Acts 5:28
"Did we not positively forbid you to teach anymore on this authority, and yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and now want to bring on us the people's vengeance for this man's death!"
Acts 7:51
"You people, stubborn in will, heathenish in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit, as your forefathers did, too.
Galatians 4:16
Have I then turned into an enemy to you, because I tell you the truth?
Revelation 11:5
If anyone wants to injure them, fire comes out of their mouths and consumes their enemies; if anyone wants to injure them, he must himself be killed in that way.
General references
John 8:45
But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
John 15:18
If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.