22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Resh Consider my enemies, for they are multiplied; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

All that hate me congregate together and murmur against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father; then the hands of all that are with thee shall be strong.

My spirit came to be strange to my wife, although I intreated her for the sons of my own body.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hate you, that deny you for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified; but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will place thee in eternal glory, in joy from generation to generation.

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thy liberty and delivered thee unto the will of those that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.

therefore, behold that I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure and all those that thou hast loved, with all those that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

And they shall deal with thee hatefully and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

And ye shall be hated by everyone for my name, but he that shall persevere unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the sake of the Son of man.

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

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

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

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.