The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
Cross References
Psalm 109:5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
John 15:18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
Treasury of Scripture
The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
world.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth 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
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye 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.
but.
John 15:18,19,23-25
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you…
John 17:14
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.
Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself 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 doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
