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 perverse mouth, do I hate.
You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
A righteous man hates lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.
I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.
You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
For that which I do I know not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
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.
I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scoffer is an abomination to men.
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will prepare you unto blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, even blood shall pursue you.
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Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
