17 Bible Verses about Loving Evil

[Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,

You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.

Because he loved cursing, let it come [upon] him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue,

O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? [How long] will you love vanity? [How long] will you seek lies? Selah

"{How long}, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And [how long] will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."

The prophets prophesy {falsely}, and the priests rule {by their own authority}, and my people love [it] so much. But what will you do {when the end comes}?

But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death."

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came [to] Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like {the thing they love}.

traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,

Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.

He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors, or to [the] darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all [gods].