John Chapter 7 verse 7 Holy Bible

ASV John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
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BBE John 7:7

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
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DARBY John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.
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KJV John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
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WEB John 7:7

The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
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YLT John 7:7

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - The world cannot hate you; but it hateth me, because I bear witness concerning it, that its works are evil. The "world" is here used in the current Johannine sense of "humanity unregenerate, humanity without grace, or apart from God." The hatred of the world to Christ was pressing down upon his spirit like an intolerable load. He admitted that, from its own standpoint, there was some justification for the feeling. The world hates its censor; it repels the judgment passed upon it. It is satisfied with itself and its own idea of righteousness. It is satisfied with its own standards and cries and professions, so that to be accused of wrongful notions, of a depravity under the clothing of Pharisaic propriety, of a hidden leprosy which is eating into its vitals, rouses all its animosity. If Christ were to go, he must deliver his soul. Already the thunder peal of Matthew 22-25, to be shortly delivered after full assertion of the nature of his work, and in the metropolis of the theocracy, was hurtling in his soul, and he foresaw the outburst of maddened rage which would follow; but with melancholy and some gentle irony he said, "The world against which I have to deliver my prophetic burden cannot (οὐ δύναται, moral impossibility) hate you! Your aim is to fall in with its demands, to realize its corrupt and unspiritual dreams. You are violating none of its cherished fancies; you are abasing none of its idols; your time is always ready; my time is not yet come."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) The world cannot hate you.--Because they were of the world. To have hated them, would have been to have hated itself. (Comp. John 3:19-20.)But me it hateth, because I testify . . .--He had placed Himself in a position of antagonism to it, and must necessarily do so. His words and acts must be a witness against the evil of its deeds. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. But men who love darkness must also hate light. Its very presence makes the darkness visible; and nothing cuts to the very quick, like that which makes the heart condemn itself.