8 Bible Verses about Not Hating
Most Relevant Verses
Do not detest an Edomite for he is your brother. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien (strangers) (guests) in his land.
Those who unintentionally killed someone whom they had never hated could flee to one of these cities and save their lives.
A person who unintentionally kills someone he never hated in the past may run to one of these cities to save his life.
Otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger. He may overtake him and because the way is long he may take his life. Even though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
If the one looking for revenge follows you there, the people of the city must not hand you over to that one. They must protect you because you killed the person accidentally and not out of anger.
Their love, their hatred, and their envy, is now gone, perished! They do not share anything that is done under the sun.
You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.
The world has no reason to hate you. But it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
