22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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

They encompassed 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, thou that liftest 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 to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred by thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I entreated for the children's sake of my own body.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye 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.

Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellence, a joy of many generations.

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

Behold therefore, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

And they shall treat thee with hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy prostitutions shall be disclosed, both thy lewdness and thy prostitutions.

And ye will be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

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

And ye will be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.

And ye will be hated by 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, on account of the son of man.

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

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

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate 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 hateth you.