What Does the Bible Say About Hate The World?

1 John 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Revelation 13:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

Matthew 22:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

John 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

John 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”

Ecclesiastes 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

21 Bible Verses about Hate The World

1 John 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 13:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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21 Bible Verses about Hate The World

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1 John 2:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

James 4:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 13:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes