17 Bible Verses about Loving Evil

You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;

You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.

He who loves fighting loves transgression; he who makes his gate high seeks ruin.

Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

O sons of men, how long will you turn My glory into shame? Will you love vanity and seek after a lie? Selah.

How long will you love simplicity, simple ones? And will scorners delight in their scorning? And will fools hate knowledge?

So says Jehovah to this people; So they have loved to wander; they have not restrained their feet; therefore Jehovah does not accept them. He will now remember their iniquity and visit their sins.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who hate me love death.

Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and he has departed to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first-fruit in the fig tree at her first time. But they went to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing; and they became abominable like that which they loved.

traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.

He will not regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god. For he shall magnify himself above all.