22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

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

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

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

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

Hear the word of Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, 'Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is those who shall be disappointed.

"Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may 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 prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

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

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Don't be surprised, 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, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.