'Hate' in the Bible
You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.
And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?
And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.
Salvation from those who are against us, and from the hands of those who have hate for us;
Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.
But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,
And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
If I had not done among them the works which no other man ever did, they would have had no sin: but now they have seen, and they have had hate in their hearts for me and my Father.
This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.
But Saul was burning with hate against the church, going into every house and taking men and women and putting them in prison.
Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.
Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.
But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.
For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;
For no man ever had hate for his flesh; but he gives it food and takes care of it, even as Christ does for the church;
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.
Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.
If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?