Whisperers, detractors, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, vain boasters, inventors of vices, unto parents unyielding,

For there are those, of whom I have given you word before, and do so now with sorrow, who are haters of the cross of Christ;

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.