22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

You have taken my friends far away from me. You made me disgusting to them. I am shut in, and I cannot get out.

They reward me with evil instead of good and with hatred instead of love.

They surround me with hateful words. They fight against me without reason.

Be merciful to me, O Jehovah! See the sufferings my enemies cause me! Rescue me from death, O Jehovah.

See how my enemies have increased in number, how they have hated me with vicious hatred!

All who hate me whisper together (gossip) against me; against me they devise my hurt, saying:

Ahithophel answered: Some of your father's wives were left here to take care of the palace. You should have sex with them. Then everyone will find out that you have publicly disgraced your father. This will make you and your followers even more powerful.

I am repulsive to my wife and my children think I stink.

Listen to the word of Jehovah, all who tremble at his word. Your brothers, who hate you, exclude you because of my name. They say: Let Jehovah show his glory and then we will see your joy. But they will be put to shame.

You have been abandoned and hated. No one has passed through you. But now I will make you a foundation of everlasting pride, a joy for all generations.

Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you. They are also disgusted with your immoral actions.

So I, the Lord Jehovah, will gather every one of your lovers, those you liked and those you hated. They will stand around you, and I will rip off your clothes and let all of those lovers stare at your nakedness.

They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your fornications will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your acts of prostitution.

Men will hate you because of me. He who endures to the end will be saved.

People will cause you tribulation, and kill you. You will be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.

All men will hate you because of my name. He who endures to the end will be saved.

Men will hate you because of my name.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

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

I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.