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John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
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Amos 5:10
There are those who hate the one who upholds justice in court and detest the one who tells the truth.
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Micah 2:7
You descendants of Jacob, should it be said,“ Does the Lord become impatient? Does he do such things?”“ Do not my words do good to the one whose ways are upright?
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John 3:19-21
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
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John 17:14
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
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Jeremiah 38:4
Then the officials said to the king,“ This man should be put to death. He is discouraging the soldiers who are left in this city, as well as all the people, by the things he is saying to them. This man is not seeking the good of these people but their ruin.”
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1 Kings 22 27
and say,‘ This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.’”
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Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
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2 Chronicles 36 16
But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
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Psalms 34:21
Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
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Isaiah 49:7
This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel— to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers:“ Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
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Micah 2:11
If a liar and deceiver comes and says,‘ I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’ that would be just the prophet for this people!
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Jeremiah 18:18
They said,“ Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah; for the teaching of the law by the priest will not cease, nor will counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophets. So come, let’s attack him with our tongues and pay no attention to anything he says.”
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Proverbs 5:12-14
You will say,“ How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!I would not obey my teachers or turn my ear to my instructors.And I was soon in serious trouble in the assembly of God’s people.”
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1 Kings 21 27-1 Kings 21 29
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:“ Have you noticed how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself, I will not bring this disaster in his day, but I will bring it on his house in the days of his son.”
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1 Kings 20 35-1 Kings 20 43
By the word of the Lord one of the company of the prophets said to his companion,“ Strike me with your weapon,” but he refused.So the prophet said,“ Because you have not obeyed the Lord, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.The prophet found another man and said,“ Strike me, please.” So the man struck him and wounded him.Then the prophet went and stood by the road waiting for the king. He disguised himself with his headband down over his eyes.As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him,“ Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said,‘ Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent of silver.’While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.”“ That is your sentence,” the king of Israel said.“ You have pronounced it yourself.”Then the prophet quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.He said to the king,“ This is what the Lord says:‘ You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.’”Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.
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Genesis 37:8
His brothers said to him,“ Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.
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John 15:18-19
“ If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.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 out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
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Jeremiah 43:3-4
But Baruch son of Neriah is inciting you against us to hand us over to the Babylonians, so they may kill us or carry us into exile to Babylon.”So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people disobeyed the Lord’s command to stay in the land of Judah.
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Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.
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Proverbs 9:8
Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
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1 Kings 21 20
Ahab said to Elijah,“ So you have found me, my enemy!”“ I have found you,” he answered,“ because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
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1 Kings 18 4
While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)
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Zechariah 11:8
In one month I got rid of the three shepherds. The flock detested me, and I grew weary of them
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1 Kings 22 13
The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him,“ Look, the other prophets without exception are predicting success for the king. Let your word agree with theirs, and speak favorably.”
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Revelation 11:7-10
Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city— which is figuratively called Sodom and Egypt— where also their Lord was crucified.For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial.The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
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Galatians 4:16
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
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Proverbs 15:12
Mockers resent correction, so they avoid the wise.
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1 Kings 19 14
He replied,“ I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
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1 Kings 19 10
He replied,“ I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”
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2 Kings 9 22
When Joram saw Jehu he asked,“ Have you come in peace, Jehu?”“ How can there be peace,” Jehu replied,“ as long as all the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?”
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Isaiah 57:19-21
creating praise on their lips. Peace, peace, to those far and near,” says the Lord.“ And I will heal them.”But the wicked are like the tossing sea, which cannot rest, whose waves cast up mire and mud.“ There is no peace,” says my God,“ for the wicked.”
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Isaiah 30:10
They say to the seers,“ See no more visions!” and to the prophets,“ Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.
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Jeremiah 20:10
I hear many whispering,“ Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let’s denounce him!” All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying,“ Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.”
