22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have 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 surrounded me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto your father's concubines, which he has left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that you are abhorred by your father: then shall the hands of all that are with you be strong.

My breath is repulsive to my wife, though I make supplication for the children of my own body.

Hear the word of the LORD, } you that tremble at his word; { Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Although you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through you, I will make you an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your allowance of food, and delivered you unto the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all them that you have loved, with all them that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.

And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all the fruit of your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare: and the nakedness of your harlotries shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

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

And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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

Blessed are you, 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 Son of man's sake.

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

I have given them your 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 you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.