25 Bible Verses about Hating Evil
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“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.
Hate evil, you who love the Lord,
Who preserves the souls of His godly ones;
He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Hate evil, love good,
And establish justice in the gate!
Perhaps the Lord God of hosts
May be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.
From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.
Therefore I esteem right all Your precepts concerning everything,
I hate every false way.
A righteous man hates falsehood,
But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.
I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.
He who profits illicitly troubles his own house,
But he who hates bribes will live.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.
“You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness above Your companions.”
You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.
save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.
Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
I behold the treacherous and loathe them,
Because they do not keep Your word.
An unjust man is abominable to the righteous,
And he who is upright in the way is abominable to the wicked.
Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
therefore as I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will give you over to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you; since you have not hated bloodshed, therefore bloodshed will pursue you.
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