'Hate' in the Bible

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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.

The righteous hate lying,but the wicked act disgustingly and disgracefully.

Desire fulfilled is sweet to the taste,but to turn from evilis an abomination to fools.

Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

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 ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, [but] those who hate unjust gain will have long days.

The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.

To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself;he hears the curse but will not testify.

Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Indeed, I took all this to heart and explained it all: the righteous, the wise, and their works are in God’s hands.People don’t know whether to expect love or hate. Everything lies ahead of them.

Their love, their hate, and their envy have already disappeared, and there is no longer a portion for them in all that is done under the sun.

I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals.They have become a burden to Me;I am tired of putting up with them.

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.

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

You who tremble at His word,hear the word of the Lord:“Your brothers who hate and exclude youbecause of Me have said,‘Let the Lord be glorifiedso that we can see your joy!’But they will be put to shame.”

"I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor.

My inheritance has acted toward Melike a lion in the forest.She has roared against Me.Therefore, I hate her.

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

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.

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

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.

“For this is what the Lord God says: I am going to hand you over to those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust.

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:

therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I will destine you for bloodshed, and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

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.

Then you'll remember your lifestyles and practices that were not good. You'll hate yourselves as you look at your own iniquities and loathsome practices.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

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 appears at Gilgal,for there I came to hate them.I will drive them from My housebecause of their evil, wicked actions.I will no longer love them;all their leaders are rebellious.

They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Please listen to this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you officials of the house of Israel, you who hate administering justice, who pervert the very meaning of equity,

"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

For I hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He who hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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 then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

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

But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

'He who is hating me, doth hate also 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.

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

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;

For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

according as it hath been written, 'Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.'

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 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 one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

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.

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

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.

You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle. You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].

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.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

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 any one may say -- 'I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

others you must try to save, as brands plucked from the flames; and on others look with pity mingled with fear, while you hate every trace of their sin.

But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.