Reference: Hatred
Easton
(1.) among the works of the flesh (Ga 5:20). Altogether different is the meaning of the word in De 21:15; Mt 6:24; Lu 14:26; Ro 9:13, where it denotes only a less degree of love.
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No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
As it is written, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."
idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies,
Hastings
Personal hatred is permitted in the OT, but forbidden in the NT (Mt 5:43-45). Love is to characterize the Christian life (Mt 22:37-40). The only hatred it can express is hatred of evil (Heb 1:9; Jude 1:23; Re 2:6; 17:15). In Lu 14:26 and Joh 12:25 the use of the verb 'hate' by Jesus is usually explained as Oriental hyperbole; and we are gravely assured that He did not mean hate, but only love less than some other thing. It would seem fairer to suppose that He meant what He said and said what He meant; but that the hatred He enjoined applied to the objects mentioned only so far as they became identified with the spirit of evil and so antagonistic to the cause of Christ.
D. A. Hayes.
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Ye have heard that it hath been said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy." But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who treat you insolently, and persecute you; read more. that ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he causeth his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and tendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Then Jesus said to him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." This is the first and great commandment. read more. And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." On these two commandments, the whole law and the prophets depend.
If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world, shall preserve it to life eternal.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of exultation above those who partake with thee."
and others save with trembling, snatching them out of the fire; though hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
But this thou holdest, that thou abhorrest the deeds of the Nicolatans, which I also abhor.
And he saith to me, The waters which thou sawest, on which the whore sat, are people, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.