The world cannot hate you, but (A)it hates me because I testify about it that (B)its works are evil.

Read full chapter

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me(A) because I testify that its works are evil.(B)

Read full chapter

The Hatred of the World

18 (A)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 (B)If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because (C)you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Read full chapter

The World Hates the Disciples

18 “If the world hates you,(A) keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you(B) out of the world. That is why the world hates you.(C)

Read full chapter

19 (A)And this is the judgment: (B)the light has come into the world, and (C)people loved the darkness rather than the light because (D)their works were evil.

Read full chapter

19 This is the verdict: Light(A) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.(B)

Read full chapter

Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse,
    and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.
(A)Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;
    (B)reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Read full chapter

Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults;
    whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse.(A)
Do not rebuke mockers(B) or they will hate you;
    rebuke the wise and they will love you.(C)

Read full chapter

16 Have I then become your enemy by (A)telling you the truth?[a]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Galatians 4:16 Or by dealing truthfully with you

16 Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?(A)

Read full chapter

(A)They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and (B)the world listens to them.

Read full chapter

They are from the world(A) and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

Read full chapter

14 (A)I have given them your word, and (B)the world has hated them (C)because they are not of the world, (D)just as I am not of the world.

Read full chapter

14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,(A) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.(B)

Read full chapter

23 (A)Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24 (B)If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, (C)they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have (D)seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But (E)the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: (F)‘They hated me without a cause.’

Read full chapter

23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did,(A) they would not be guilty of sin.(B) As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law:(C) ‘They hated me without reason.’[a](D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. John 15:25 Psalms 35:19; 69:4

(A)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!

You adulterous(A) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(B) means enmity against God?(C) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 An allusion to covenant unfaithfulness; see Hosea 3:1.

For whenever I speak, I cry out,
    I shout, (A)“Violence and destruction!”
For (B)the word of the Lord has become for me
    (C)a reproach and (D)derision all day long.

Read full chapter

Whenever I speak, I cry out
    proclaiming violence and destruction.(A)
So the word of the Lord has brought me
    insult and reproach(B) all day long.

Read full chapter

36 but he who fails to find me (A)injures himself;
    all who (B)hate me (C)love death.”

Read full chapter

36 But those who fail to find me harm themselves;(A)
    all who hate me love death.”(B)

Read full chapter

20 Ahab said to Elijah, (A)“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because (B)you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord.

Read full chapter

20 Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!”(A)

“I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold(B) yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Read full chapter

And if anyone would harm them, (A)fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, (B)this is how he is doomed to be killed. They have the power (C)to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and (D)to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire. And when they have finished their testimony, (E)the beast that rises from (F)the bottomless pit[a] (G)will make war on them and conquer them and kill them, and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically[b] is called (H)Sodom and (I)Egypt, where their Lord was crucified. For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and (J)refuse to let them be placed in a tomb, 10 and (K)those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and (L)exchange presents, because these two prophets (M)had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth. 11 But after the three and a half days (N)a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:7 Or the abyss
  2. Revelation 11:8 Greek spiritually

If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies.(A) This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die.(B) They have power to shut up the heavens(C) so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying;(D) and they have power to turn the waters into blood(E) and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.

Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast(F) that comes up from the Abyss(G) will attack them,(H) and overpower and kill them. Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city(I)—which is figuratively called Sodom(J) and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.(K) For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation(L) will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.(M) 10 The inhabitants of the earth(N) will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,(O) because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

11 But after the three and a half days(P) the breath[a] of life from God entered them,(Q) and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Revelation 11:11 Or Spirit (see Ezek. 37:5,14)