John 7:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

John 7:7

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

World

But

1 John 3:12

Because

General references

Proverbs 29:27

John 8:45

John 15:18

Bible References

World

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.

Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you -- for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

But

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: 'Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.'

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

Because

'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

And Ahab saith unto Elijah, 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?' and he saith, 'I have found -- because of thy selling thyself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, 'Let not the king say so.'

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it -- shame, And a reprover of the wicked -- his blemish.

A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.

Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

Because from the time I speak I cry out, 'Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day.

Thus hath He shewed me, and lo, the Lord is standing by a wall made according to a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line;

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

saying, 'Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.

General references

An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!

'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;