22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated
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You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
when they prayed: "Have mercy on me, Lord! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!
Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.
All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.
Ahithophel replied to Absalom, "Have sex with your father's concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you."
Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, "May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy." But they will be put to shame.
You were once abandoned and despised, with no one passing through, but I will make you a permanent source of pride and joy to coming generations.
So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.
therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness.
They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.
And you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
"Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name.
You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.
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