John 7:7

¹⁸If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹If 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.

¹⁹This 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.

¹⁶So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

⁷One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. ⁸Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

⁴You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

⁵They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

¹⁴I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

²⁰Ahab 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 LORD’s sight.

⁷because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

⁸For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because the LORD’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.