The world cannot hate you; but it hates Me because I bear witness of it that its works are evil.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of Jehovah; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so!

They rebel against the Light; they have not recognized its ways nor stayed in its paths.

The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and puts a covering over his face.

For the morning is the same to them as deep darkness; they know the terrors of deep darkness.

seeing as how you hate correction, and cast off My Words behind you?

Because they hated knowledge and chose not the fear of Jehovah.

But the path of the just is as the brightness of dawn, that keeps getting brighter until it is fully daytime.

and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

A scorner does not love one who corrects him, nor will he go to the wise.

They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

So, therefore because you trample on the poor, and you take tribute of grain from him; you have built houses of hewn stones, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted desirable vineyards, but you shall not drink wine from them.

Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Teacher, by saying these things You also insult us.

For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;

But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in his deeds.

For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.