22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.

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

And they surrounded me with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

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

All those hating me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, that he left to keep the house. And all Israel shall hear that you are abhorred by your father. And the hands of all who are with you will be strong.

My breath is hated by my wife, and I must beg to the sons of my mother's womb.

Hear the Word of Jehovah, you who tremble at His Word; your brothers who hated you, who cast you out for My name's sake, said, Let Jehovah be glorified. But He will appear to your joy, and they will be ashamed.

Instead of being forsaken and hated, so that no one passes through, I will make you for everlasting majesty, a joy of many generations.

And, behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.

behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you loved, with all whom you have hated; I will even gather them against you from all around, and will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.

And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications shall be uncovered, both your wickedness and your fornications.

And you will be hated of all men for My name's sake, but the one who endures to the end shall be kept safe.

Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake.

And you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he enduring to the end, that one will be kept safe.

And you shall be hated by all for My name's sake.

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall cut you off, and when they shall reproach you and shall cast out your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

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.

Do not marvel, my brothers, 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.