40 Bible Verses about haters
Most Relevant Verses
Evil will cause the death of the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.
Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being my enemies wrongfully;
I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors [of new forms] of evil, disobedient and disrespectful to parents,
Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, helped and comforted me.
The Lord is on my side, He is among those who help me;
Therefore I will look [in triumph] on those who hate me.
But my [numerous] enemies are vigorous and strong,
And those who hate me without cause are many.
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink;
Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.
“But he who fails to find me or sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love and court death.”
Your hand will reach out and defeat all your enemies;
Your right hand will reach those who hate you.
The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who have persecuted you.
[and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,
Do not correct a scoffer [who foolishly ridicules and takes no responsibility for his error] or he will hate you;
Correct a wise man [who learns from his error], and he will love you.
The Lord will take away from you all sickness; and He will not subject you to any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will impose them on all [those] who hate you.
Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
You who love the Lord, hate evil;
He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers),
He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear the skin off my people
And their flesh from their bones;
Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord [that is, obeying Him with reverence and awe-filled respect],
Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
But You have saved us from our enemies,
And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.
Let God arise, and His enemies be scattered;
Let those who hate Him flee before Him.
Blessed [morally courageous and spiritually alive with life-joy in God’s goodness] are you when people hate you, and exclude you [from their fellowship], and insult you, and scorn your name as evil because of [your association with] the Son of Man.
Everyone who hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is [at heart] a murderer [by God’s standards]; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who live as enemies of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation],
The bloodthirsty hate the blameless [because of his integrity],
But the upright are concerned for his life.
Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me;
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink their eye [maliciously].
“I hate, I despise and reject your [sacred] feasts,
And I do not take delight in your solemn assemblies.
At that time many will be offended and repelled [by their association with Me] and will fall away [from the One whom they should trust] and will betray one another [handing over believers to their persecutors] and will hate one another.
Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing—without guile and hypocrisy]. Hate what is evil [detest all ungodliness, do not tolerate wickedness]; hold on tightly to what is good.
but repays those who hate Him to their faces, by destroying them; He will not hesitate with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face.
He gave them into the hands of the nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
They hate the one who reprimands [the unrighteous] in the [court held at the city] gate [regarding him as unreasonable and rejecting his reprimand],
And they detest him who speaks [the truth] with integrity and honesty.
All who hate me whisper together about me;
Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,
Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble [with awe-filled reverence] at His word:
“Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My Name’s sake,
Have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy.’
But they will be put to shame.
But I say to you, love [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,