"The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." — John 7:7

John 7:7 · KJV

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

— John 7:7

Verse 6

Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

Verse 8

Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

John 7 — Context

For neither did his brethren believe in him.

Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

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

Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

When he had said these words unto them, he abode {still} in Galilee.

Cross References

John 15:18-19

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before {it hated} you.

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.

Galatians 4:16

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

Proverbs 9:7-8

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked {man getteth} himself a blot.

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.

1 John 4:5

They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

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.

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.