For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify about it, that its deeds are evil.

The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Disciples’ Relation to the World

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.

The one who hates Me hates My Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

But this has happened so that the word that is written in their Law will be fulfilled: ‘They hated Me for no reason.’

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.