82 Bible Verses about Hatred
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Then Amnon hated her exceedingly so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.
For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.
And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee, but will lay them upon all those that hate thee.
But when any man hates his neighbour and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and smites him mortally that he dies and flees into one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall die.
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me and expel me out of my father's house? Why, therefore, are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
And Absalom spoke neither good nor bad unto his brother Amnon, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar.
Resh Consider my enemies, for they are multiplied; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied;
And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
He that says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and ye 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 that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
The haters of the LORD would have submitted themselves unto him, and their time would endure for ever.
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, without mercy.
Thou shalt not bow down to them nor serve them; for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate me
and repays him that hates him to his face, to destroy him; he will not be slack to him that hates him; he will repay him to his face.
if I whet the resplendence of my sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will recompense those that hate me.
And Jehu, the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the ungodly and love those that hate the LORD? Therefore, the wrath of the presence of the LORD shall be upon thee.
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
He that hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them works which no other man has done, they would not have sin; but now they have seen them and hate both me and my Father. But this comes to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
He is despised and rejected among men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with weakness; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude because they held him as a prophet.
Then the princes of the priests and the scribes and the elders of the people assembled together in the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, and took counsel that they might take Jesus by guile and kill him.
Pilate said unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus who is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
And the king of Israel replied unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Let not those that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those that hate me wink with the eye without a cause.
Those that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored that which I did not take away.
They compassed me about with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause. They have responded to my love by becoming my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer. And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hate you, that deny you for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified; but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another.
And ye shall be hated by everyone for my name, but he that shall persevere unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolk and friends, and some of you they shall cause to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head shall perish.read more.
In your patience ye shall possess your souls.
And has raised up a horn of saving health for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of the saints who from the beginning were his prophets; salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us;
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the sake of the Son of man.
and he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Greeks; but they went about to slay him,
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together and they vowed under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty who had made this conspiracy. And they came to the princes of the priests and the elders and said, We have made a vow of anathema that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.read more.
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the tribunal that he bring him down unto you tomorrow, as though ye would enquire something more certain concerning him, and we, before he arrives, are ready to kill him.
But I say unto you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those that curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you.
Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those that curse you, do good to those that hate you, and pray for those who speak evil about you, and persecute you;
For thou art not a God that loves wickedness; neither shall one who is evil dwell with thee. The foolish (those who are governed by carnal thoughts or desires) shall not stand in thy sight; thou dost hate all workers of iniquity.
These six things does the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to evil,read more.
a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
For I the LORD love that which is right, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will confirm your work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination unto the LORD, which he hates, they have done unto their gods; for they have even burnt their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee. Neither shalt thou set thee up any image, which the LORD thy God hates.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
My heritage was unto me as a lion in the forest; it cried out against me, therefore I have hated it.
All their wickedness was in Gilgal, for there I took a dislike to them; for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house, I will never love them again: all their princes are disloyal.
These are the things that ye shall do: Speak each one the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; and let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, said the LORD.
He that rejects her, sending her away, said the LORD God of Israel, covers the violence with his garment, said the LORD of the hosts; therefore take heed in your spirit, and do not be treacherous.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride, arrogancy, the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Let love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;
Moreover thou shalt consider out of all the people men of virtue, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place princes over them, of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Ye that love the LORD are to hate evil; he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
I will set nothing of Belial before my eyes: I hate the work of those that betray; it shall not cleave to me.
Through thy precepts I have obtained understanding; therefore I have hated every false way.
Do I not hate all those, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
The righteous man hates lying: but the wicked man makes himself loathsome, and abominable.
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted calf and hatred therewith.
Hate the evil and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate; it may be that the LORD God of the hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore, God, even thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
From Thematic Bible
Christ » Sake, for his » Hatred
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
For Christ's sake » Hatred
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Hatred » Examples of » Of the saints
Then they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the sake of the Son of man.
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hate you, that deny you for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified; but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Hatred » Condemned
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted calf and hatred therewith.
If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Hatred » Examples of » Of Christ
And they were filled with madness and talked one with another about what they might do to Jesus.
But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
But this comes to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Hatred » Christ experienced
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
Let not those that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those that hate me wink with the eye without a cause.
If I had not done among them works which no other man has done, they would not have sin; but now they have seen them and hate both me and my Father. But this comes to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Hatred » Punishment of
Schin Evil shall slay the wicked; and those that hate the righteous shall be declared guilty.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put to shame those that hated us.
But I will break down his foes before his face and smite those that hate him.
Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Edom and for the fourth, I will not convert her because she pursued her brother with the sword and cast off all mercy, and with her anger she stole from him perpetually, and she kept her wrath for ever:
Hatred » Against iniquity, justified
I will set nothing of Belial before my eyes: I hate the work of those that betray; it shall not cleave to me.
Through thy precepts I have obtained understanding; therefore I have hated every false way.
Ye that love the LORD are to hate evil; he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Therefore I have esteemed all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I have hated every false way.
Hatred » Forbidden
But now put ye also off all these things: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart; thou shalt rebuke thy neighbour in sincerity, that thou not bear sin for him.
Hatred » Often cloaked by deceit
Even though his hatred is covered up in the desert, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » False ways
Through thy precepts I have obtained understanding; therefore I have hated every false way.
Therefore I have esteemed all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I have hated every false way.
Hatred » Saints should » Expect
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards saints
Resh Consider my enemies, for they are multiplied; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Evil
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride, arrogancy, the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Ye that love the LORD are to hate evil; he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
Hatred » Saints should » Return good for
If thou see the ass of him that hates thee lying under his burden, will thou forbear to help him? Thou shalt surely help him to raise it up.
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those that curse you, do good to those that hate you, and pray for those who speak evil about you, and persecute you;
Hatred » Exemplified » Cain
And Cain talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him.
but he did not look upon Cain and his present. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
Hatred » Examples of » Haman
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his law drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, it was turned to the contrary; for the Jews took dominion over those that hated them.
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not kneel or worship before him, then Haman was filled with wrath. And he thought it a small matter to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for now they had declared unto him the people of Mordecai; therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
Hatred » Inconsistent with » The knowledge of God
But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of the jews
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his law drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, it was turned to the contrary; for the Jews took dominion over those that hated them.
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Hatred » Of God
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
The foolish (those who are governed by carnal thoughts or desires) shall not stand in thy sight; thou dost hate all workers of iniquity.
He that rejects her, sending her away, said the LORD God of Israel, covers the violence with his garment, said the LORD of the hosts; therefore take heed in your spirit, and do not be treacherous.
Hatred » Examples of » The jews
For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together and they vowed under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
Hatred » Leads to deceit
He that hates dissembles with his lips and lays up deceit within him; when he speaks fair, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Hatred and opposition to God
Do I not hate all those, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.
Hatred » Exemplified » saul
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him, and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and what can he have more but the kingdom? And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
Hatred » Give no cause for
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house lest he be weary of thee and so hate thee.
Hatred » Stirs up strife
Hatred » Embitters life
Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted calf and hatred therewith.
Hatred » Liars prone to
A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Hatred » A work of the flesh
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Hatred » Exemplified » Esau
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will slay my brother Jacob.
Hatred » Examples of » Esau
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will slay my brother Jacob.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Lying
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of daniel
Then the presidents and governors looked for occasions against Daniel on behalf of the kingdom, but they could find no occasion or fault because he was faithful, and no vice nor fault was found in him. Then these men said, We shall never find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it against him in the law of his God. Then these governors and presidents assembled together before the king and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. read more.
All the presidents of the kingdom, magistrates, governors, great ones, and captains have agreed in common accord to promote a royal decree and to confirm it that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, confirm the decree and sign the writing that it not be moved, according to the law of Media and of Persia, which does not change. Therefore King Darius signed the writing and the decree. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he entered into his house; and with the windows open toward Jerusalem in his dining chamber, he knelt three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he was used to doing before. Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. Then they went and spoke before the king concerning the royal decree; Hast thou not confirmed a decree that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Media and Persia, which does not change. Then they answered and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the sons of the captivity of the Jews, has not regarded thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast confirmed, but makes his petition three times a day. When the king, heard the matter, it weighed very heavy upon him, and he set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured until the going down of the sun to deliver him. Then those men assembled near the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that this is the law of Media and of Persia: No decree nor statute which the king has confirmed may be moved.
Hatred » Saints should » Not rejoice in the calamities of those who exhibit
If I rejoiced at the destruction of the one that hated me or lifted up myself when evil found him; for I have never even suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse upon his soul;
Hatred » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Hatred » Exemplified » Haman
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not kneel or worship before him, then Haman was filled with wrath. And he thought it a small matter to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for now they had declared unto him the people of Mordecai; therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
Hatred » Exemplified » Ahab
And the king of Israel replied unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Hatred » Examples of » Joseph's brethren
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Hatred » Examples of » Herodias
For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him and would have killed him, but she could not;
Hatred » Examples of » Ahab
And the king of Israel replied unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah, the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Backsliding
I will set nothing of Belial before my eyes: I hate the work of those that betray; it shall not cleave to me.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards God
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, 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 that does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Hatred » Saints should » Not marvel at
Hatred » Exemplified » Men of gilead
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me and expel me out of my father's house? Why, therefore, are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
Hatred » Is murder
Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards each other
For we ourselves also were foolish in another time, rebellious, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Home » Family » Hard to bear causes of » Hatred
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will slay my brother Jacob.
for Jesus' sake » Hatred
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Lying » Leads to » Hatred
A lying tongue hates those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Strife » Excited by » Hatred
Strife » Causes of » Hatred
Suffering for Christ's sake » Some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name, but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Topics on Hatred
Dishonesty, God's Hatred Of
Proverbs 12:22Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but the workers of the truth are his delight.
Hatred Between Relatives
Genesis 4:9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not, Am I my brother's keeper?
Satanic Hatred
1 John 3:12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
