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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If a man has two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
If any man come to me, and hate not his 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, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, 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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You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, and persecute you; read more. That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven: for he makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. read more. And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
He that loves his life shall lose it; and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
And he said unto me, The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.