22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.

Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.

All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.

Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened."

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

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.

Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.

Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

"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 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 hated by all for my name's sake.

"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!

"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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.

Do not be surprised, brothers,that the world hates 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.