'Hate' in the Bible
And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?
So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.
And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.
Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.
And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.
Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.
And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;
And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.
If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;
Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.
But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,
And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.
To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:
And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.
Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.
This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;
For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.
But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;
But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.
Let your blessing, O Lord, be on his substance, may the work of his hands be pleasing to you: may those who take up arms against him and all who have hate for him, be wounded through the heart, never to be lifted up again.
And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.
But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?
Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?
And her father said, It seemed to me that you had only hate for her; so I gave her to your friend: but is not her younger sister fairer than she? so please take her in place of the other.
Then Amnon was full of hate for her, hating her with a hate greater than his earlier love for her. And he said to her, Get up and be gone.
But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.
I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.
I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.
But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.
Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.
Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.
They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.
I saw with hate those who were untrue to you; for they did not keep your saying.
I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.
My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.
Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.
Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.
Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.
Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.
A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.
And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.
My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.
And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.
And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.
And they will take you in hand with hate, and take away all the fruit of your work, and let you be unveiled and without clothing: and the shame of your loose behaviour will be uncovered, your evil designs and your loose ways.
This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;
Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, I will do to you as you have done in your wrath and in your envy, which you have made clear in your hate for them; and I will make clear to you who I am when you are judged by me.
And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.
They have hate for him who makes protest against evil in the public place, and he whose words are upright is disgusting to them.
The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.
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.
He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.
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?
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Abhor (29 instances)
- Abominate (10 instances)
- Detest (22 instances)
- Execrate (2 instances)
- Hate (195 instances)
- Hatred (42 instances)
- Loathe (25 instances)
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