The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I keep telling it that its ways are bad.

Ahab answered, "There is one more, Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he never prophesies anything good for me; it's always something bad." "You shouldn't say that!" Jehoshaphat replied.

There are those who reject the light; they don't understand it or go where it leads.

The adulterer waits for twilight to come; he covers his face so that no one can see him.

They fear the light of day, but darkness holds no terror for them.

You refuse to let me correct you; you reject my commands.

You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey the LORD.

The road the righteous travel is like the sunrise, getting brighter and brighter until daylight has come.

and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

Conceited people do not like to be corrected; they never ask for advice from those who are wiser.

You people hate anyone who challenges injustice and speaks the whole truth in court.

You have oppressed the poor and robbed them of their grain. And so you will not live in the fine stone houses you build or drink wine from the beautiful vineyards you plant.

One of the teachers of the Law said to him, "Teacher, when you say this, you insult us too!"

If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.

But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice---you will be blessed by God in what you do.

(It is really too shameful even to talk about the things they do in secret.)

And when all things are brought out to the light, then their true nature is clearly revealed;