82 Bible Verses about Hatred
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And Amnon hateth her -- a very great hatred -- that greater is the hatred with which he hath hated her than the love with which he loved her, and Amnon saith to her, 'Rise, go.'
for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
and his brethren see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak to him peaceably.
and Jehovah hath turned aside from thee every sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt (which thou hast known) doth He put on thee, and He hath put them on all hating thee.
And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him -- the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;
And Jephthah saith to the elders of Gilead, 'Have not ye hated me? and ye cast me out from the house of my father, and wherefore have ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?'
and Absalom hath not spoken with Amnon either evil or good, for Absalom is hating Amnon, because that he humbled Tamar his sister.
See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.
And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.
and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not; and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,
if any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.
having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;
Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, am a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third generation, and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
and repaying to those hating Him, unto their face, to destroy them; He delayeth not to him who is hating Him -- unto his face, He repayeth to him --
If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me -- I repay!
and go out unto his presence doth Jehu son of Hanani, the seer, and saith unto king Jehoshaphat, 'To give help to the wicked, and to those hating Jehovah, dost thou love? and for this against thee is wrath from before Jehovah,
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
He is despised, and left of men, A man of pains, and acquainted with sickness, And as one hiding the face from us, He is despised, and we esteemed him not.
And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,
and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.
Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas; and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill him,
Pilate saith to them, 'What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?' They all say to him, 'Let be crucified!'
and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, 'Let not the king say so.'
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.
Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.
They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause. For my love they oppose me, and I -- prayer! And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: 'Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.
then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name; and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.
'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death; and ye shall be hated by all because of my name -- and a hair out of your head shall not perish;read more.
in your patience possess ye your souls.
And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us,
Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --
and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,
And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul; and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath, who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, 'With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves -- to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;read more.
now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'
'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you, bless those cursing you, and pray for those accusing you falsely;
'Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
For not a God desiring wickedness art Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not. The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.
These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul. Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood -- A heart devising thoughts of vanity -- Feet hasting to run to evil -- read more.
A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.
'Thou dost not do so to Jehovah thy God; for every abomination of Jehovah which He is hating they have done to their gods, for even their sons and their daughters they burn with fire to their gods.
'Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine of any trees near the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou makest for thyself, and thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image which Jehovah thy God is hating.
Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,
Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.
Mine inheritance hath been to Me as a lion in a forest, She gave forth against Me with her voice, Therefore I have hated her.
All their evil is in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads are apostates.
These are the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates, And each the evil of his neighbour ye do not devise in your heart, And a false oath ye do not love, For all these are things that I have hated, An affirmation of Jehovah.'
For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;
And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,
Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.
I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.
From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
A false word the righteous hateth, And the wicked causeth abhorrence, and is confounded.
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Hate evil, and love good, And set up judgment in the gate, It may be Jehovah, God of Hosts, doth pity the remnant of Joseph.
thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'
Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.
but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.
From Thematic Bible
Christ » Sake, for his » Hatred
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
For Christ's sake » Hatred
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
Hatred » Examples of » Of the saints
then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;
if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --
I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: 'Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.
Hatred » Condemned
he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;
Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
if any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
Hatred » Examples of » Of Christ
and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.
and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.
the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
Hatred » Christ experienced
the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.
if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
Hatred » Punishment of
For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.
And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,
Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his pursuing with a sword his brother, And he hath destroyed his mercies, And tear perpetually doth his anger, And his wrath -- he hath kept it for ever,
Hatred » Against iniquity, justified
I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.
From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.
Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
Hatred » Forbidden
but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth.
'Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.
Hatred » Often cloaked by deceit
Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.
Hatred is covered by deceit, Revealed is its wickedness in an assembly.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » False ways
From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
Hatred » Saints should » Expect
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards saints
See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Evil
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.
Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.
Hatred » Saints should » Return good for
when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him.
but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
Hatred » Exemplified » Cain
And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, 'Let us go into the field;' and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.
Hatred » Examples of » Haman
And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --
And Haman seeth that Mordecai is not bowing and doing obeisance to him, and Haman is full of fury, and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.
Hatred » Inconsistent with » The knowledge of God
and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of the jews
And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --
And the Jews smite among all their enemies -- a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction -- and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,
Hatred » Of God
Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.
The boastful station not themselves before Thine eyes: Thou hast hated all working iniquity.
For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.
Hatred » Examples of » The jews
for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;
Hatred » Leads to deceit
By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit, When his voice is gracious trust not in him, For seven abominations are in his heart.
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Hatred and opposition to God
Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? With perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
Hatred » Exemplified » saul
And it is displeasing to Saul exceedingly, and this thing is evil in his eyes, and he saith, 'They have given to David myriads, and to me they have given the thousands, and more to him is only the kingdom;' and Saul is eyeing David from that day and thenceforth.
Hatred » Give no cause for
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated with thee, and have hated thee.
Hatred » Stirs up strife
Hatred » Embitters life
Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Hatred » Liars prone to
A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
Hatred » A work of the flesh
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,
Hatred » Exemplified » Esau
And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, 'The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'
Hatred » Examples of » Esau
And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, 'The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Lying
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of daniel
Then the presidents and satraps have been seeking to find a cause of complaint against Daniel concerning the kingdom, and any cause of complaint and corruption they are not able to find, because that he is faithful, and any error and corruption have not been found in him. Then these men are saying, 'We do not find against this Daniel any cause of complaint, except we have found it against him in the law of his God.' Then these presidents and satraps have assembled near the king, and thus they are saying to him: 'O king Darius, to the ages live! read more.
Taken counsel have all the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the counsellors, and the governors, to establish a royal statute, and to strengthen an interdict, that any who seeketh a petition from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions. Now, O king, thou dost establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it is not to be changed, as a law of Media and Persia, that doth not pass away.' Therefore king Darius hath signed the writing and interdict. And Daniel, when he hath known that the writing is signed, hath gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, over-against Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing it before this. Then these men have assembled, and found Daniel praying and entreating grace before his God; then they have come near, yea, they are saying before the king concerning the king's interdict: 'Hast thou not signed an interdict, that any man who seeketh from any god and man until thirty days, save of thee, O king, is cast into a den of lions?' Answered hath the king, and said, 'The thing is certain as a law of Media and Persia, that doth not pass away.' Then they have answered, yea, they are saying before the king, that, 'Daniel, who is of the sons of the Removed of Judah, hath not placed on thee, O king, any regard, nor on the interdict that thou hast signed, and three times in a day he is seeking his petition.' Then the king, when he hath heard the matter, is greatly displeased at himself, and on Daniel he hath set the heart to deliver him, and till the going up of the sun he was arranging to deliver him. Then these men have assembled near the king, and are saying to the king, 'know, O king, that the law of Media and Persia is: That any interdict and statute that the king doth establish is not to be changed.'
Hatred » Saints should » Not rejoice in the calamities of those who exhibit
If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him, Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.
Hatred » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
and his brethren see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak to him peaceably.
Hatred » Exemplified » Haman
And Haman seeth that Mordecai is not bowing and doing obeisance to him, and Haman is full of fury, and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who are in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of Mordecai.
Hatred » Exemplified » Ahab
And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, 'Let not the king say so.'
Hatred » Examples of » Joseph's brethren
and his brethren see that their father hath loved him more than any of his brethren, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak to him peaceably.
Hatred » Examples of » Herodias
for John said to Herod -- 'It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;' and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able,
Hatred » Examples of » Ahab
And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Yet -- one man to seek Jehovah by him, and I have hated him, for he doth not prophesy concerning me good, but evil -- Micaiah son of Imlah;' and Jehoshaphat saith, 'Let not the king say so.'
Hatred » We should exhibit against » Backsliding
I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards God
evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Hatred » Inconsistent with » The love of God
if any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
Hatred » Saints should » Not marvel at
Hatred » Exemplified » Men of gilead
And Jephthah saith to the elders of Gilead, 'Have not ye hated me? and ye cast me out from the house of my father, and wherefore have ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?'
Hatred » Is murder
Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,
Hatred » The wicked exhibit » Towards each other
for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
Home » Family » Hard to bear causes of » Hatred
And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, 'The days of mourning for my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'
for Jesus' sake » Hatred
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
Lying » Leads to » Hatred
A lying tongue hateth its bruised ones, And a flattering mouth worketh an overthrow!
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 by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he 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 by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
Topics on Hatred
Dishonesty, God's Hatred Of
Proverbs 12:22An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.
Hatred Between Relatives
Genesis 4:9And Jehovah saith unto Cain, 'Where is Abel thy brother?' and he saith, 'I have not known; my brother's keeper -- I?'
Satanic Hatred
1 John 3:12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.
