35 Bible Verses about Hatred

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness, brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings,

he that says, he is in the light, and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness. he that loves his brother, abides in the light, and will be secure from stumbling. but he that hates his brother, is in darkness, he walks in darkness, and knows not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

whosoever hateth his brother, has the disposition of a murderer: and you know that no murderer has any title to eternal life.

if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?

they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, enemies of God, injurious, proud, vain, inventers of vices, disobedient to parents, void of judgment, fidelity, and natural affection; implacable, and unmerciful:

for every one that doth evil, hateth the light, and shunneth the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

he that hateth me, hateth my father also. if I had not done among them such works as no other ever did, they had been innocent: but though they have seen them, yet they hate both me and my father. so that the passage is fulfilled that is written in their law, "they hated me without a cause."

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

the world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I plainly show, that their works are evil.

Upon this the Pharisees went out of the synagogue, and form'd a conspiracy against his life.

and they endeavoured to seize him, but were afraid of the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

About this time the chief priests, and the elders of the people, assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and consulted how to seize Jesus by surprize, and take away his life.

Pilate replied, what shall I do then with Jesus, who is called Christ? they all cried out, let him be crucified.

but he being hated by the citizens, after he was gone, they sent a deputation to court, to make this protest, "we will not have him for our king."

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 by all the world for professing my name: but he that perseveres unto the end, shall escape.

then shall they deliver you up to torments, and to death: and ye shall be hated by all nations upon my account. then shall many relapse, and shall pursue one another with mutual treachery and hatred.

you will be the object of universal hatred upon my account; but he that shall persevere unto the end, shall be saved.

you will be betrayed even by your very parents, and brethren, and kindred, and friends. nay, some of you they will prosecute even to death. you will be hated by all mankind for professing my name, however a single hair of your head shall not be lost.read more.
by your perseverance you will save your souls.

he hath rais'd up a powerful saviour for us, in the family of his servant David, according to the antient promise he made by the mouth of the holy prophets, to deliver us from our enemies, and from the power of all that hate us:

blessed are you, when men shall hate you, discard you, reproach you, and treat you as infamous, for your attachment to the son of man.

if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.

and he openly preach'd in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Hellenists, who therefore plotted against his life:

when it was day, some Jews, that had form'd a conspiracy, engag'd themselves by an oath, not to eat, or drink, till they had kill'd Paul. the conspirators, who were above forty in number, went to the chief priests and senators, and said, "we have bound our selves by oath not to eat till we have slain Paul.read more.
if you will move it then to the tribune in the name of the Sanhedrim, to send him here to-morrow, under colour of examining his affair with more solemnity, we shall take care to dispatch him, and make a short end of his journey."

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

But as for you, who hear me, love your enemies: do good to those, who hate you: bless those, who curse you: and pray for those, who maliciously abuse you.

You have heard that it hath been said, "you shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy:" but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you:

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy peers."

but in this thou art right, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.