35 Bible Verses about Hatred

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies,

He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he is departing, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Every one who hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye know that no murderer hath life eternal abiding in him.

If any person say, I love God, yet hateth his brother, he is a liar; for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love the God whom he hath not seen?

replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers, backbiters, God-haters, contumelious, insolent, boasters, inventors of wicked practices, disobedient to parents, unintelligent, unfaithful to engagements, unnatural, implacable, unmerciful:

For every one whose practices are foul hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his actions may not be brought to conviction.

He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other ever did, they would not have had sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. But it is in order that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law, "They hated me without a cause."

Ye adulterers and adultresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity against God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is set down an enemy to God.

The world cannot hate you, but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

Then the Pharisees went out, and held a consultation against him, how they might make away with him.

And they sought to apprehend him; but were afraid of the people, for they held him as a prophet.

Then were the chief priests and scribes, and the elders of the people gathered together in the palace of the high-priest, called Caiaphas. And they consulted together, how they might seize Jesus by guile, and put him to death.

Pilate saith unto them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called the Messiah? They all say to him, Let him be crucified.

But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to rule over us.

I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end, that man shall be saved.

Then shall they deliver you up to affliction, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

But ye shall be betrayed even by parents, and brethren, and relations, and friends; and some of you they shall put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. Though a hair of your head shall in nowise perish.read more.
In your patience possess ye your souls.

and hath raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David: as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been from the beginning: even preservation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from them, and shall revile you, and shall cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before you.

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. And he talked and disputed with the Grecian proselytes: but they made an attempt to murder him.

Then as soon as it was day, some of the Jews forming a conspiracy, bound themselves under the direst imprecation, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Now there were more than forty who had on oath formed this conspiracy. So they came to the high-priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves by the direst imprecation, to taste nothing till we have killed Paul.read more.
Now therefore do ye with the sanhedrim give notice to the military tribune, that to-morrow he bring him down to you, as if intending to make more accurate inquiries into the things concerning him: but we, ere he come nigh, are ready to kill him.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you, and pray for those who wantonly insult you.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy." But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who treat you insolently, and persecute you;

Let love be undissembled. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of exultation above those who partake with thee."

But this thou holdest, that thou abhorrest the deeds of the Nicolatans, which I also abhor.