82 Bible Verses about Hatred
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Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, "Get up! Go!"
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.
"But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"
But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.
Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.
But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.
And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.
Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.
Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?"They all said, "Let him be crucified!"
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause. In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer. So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless and seek the life of the upright.
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.
"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish.read more.
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;
"Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him.
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests and elders and said, "We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paulread more.
Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near."
"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,read more.
a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
"You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make. And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates.
The LORDtests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.
Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.
"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace; do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD."
"For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless."
The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
From Thematic Bible
Christ » Sake, for his » Hatred
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
For Christ's sake » Hatred
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Hatred » Examples of » Of the saints
"Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
"Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy'; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
Hatred » Condemned
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Hatred » Examples of » Of Christ
But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
Hatred » Christ experienced
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'
Hatred » Punishment of
Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.
Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.
Hatred » Against iniquity, justified
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
Hatred » Forbidden
But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.
"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
Hatred » Often cloaked by deceit
The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.
though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » False ways
Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
Hatred » Saints should » Expect
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards saints
Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless and seek the life of the upright.
Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Evil
The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Hatred » Saints should » Return good for
If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Hatred » Exemplified » Cain
Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
Hatred » Examples of » Haman
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Hatred » Inconsistent with » The knowledge of God
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of the jews
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.
The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
Hatred » Of God
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
"For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless."
Hatred » Examples of » The jews
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
Hatred » Leads to deceit
Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Hatred and opposition to God
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.
Hatred » Exemplified » saul
And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?" And Saul eyed David from that day on.
Hatred » Give no cause for
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.
Hatred » Stirs up strife
Hatred » Embitters life
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
Hatred » Liars prone to
Hatred » A work of the flesh
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Hatred » Exemplified » Esau
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Hatred » Examples of » Esau
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Lying
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of daniel
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him. Then these men said, "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." Then these presidents and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, "O King Darius, live forever! read more.
All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked." Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction. When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God. Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, "O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered and said, "The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked." Then they answered and said before the king, "Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day." Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored till the sun went down to rescue him. Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed."
Hatred » Saints should » Not rejoice in the calamities of those who exhibit
"If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),
Hatred » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Hatred » Exemplified » Haman
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury. But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Hatred » Exemplified » Ahab
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."
Hatred » Examples of » Joseph's brethren
But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.
Hatred » Examples of » Herodias
For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife." And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,
Hatred » Examples of » Ahab
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil." And Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say so."
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Backsliding
I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards God
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Hatred » Inconsistent with » The love of God
If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Hatred » Saints should » Not marvel at
Hatred » Exemplified » Men of gilead
But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"
Hatred » Is murder
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards each other
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
Home » Family » Hard to bear causes of » Hatred
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
for Jesus' sake » Hatred
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Lying » Leads to » Hatred
Strife » Excited by » Hatred
Strife » Causes of » Hatred
Suffering for Christ's sake » Some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Topics on Hatred
Dishonesty, God's Hatred Of
Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Hatred Between Relatives
Genesis 4:9Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"
Satanic Hatred
1 John 3:12We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
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