Hatred
“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. “‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:17-18
The LORD examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.
- Psalm 11:5
You who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Psalm 97:10
They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- Psalm 109:3-5
LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
- Psalm 139:21-22
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
- Proverbs 10:12
He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
- Proverbs 10:18
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
- Proverbs 15:17
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart. His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
- Proverbs 26:24-26
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
- Proverbs 29:10
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
- Ecclesiastes 3:8
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
- Micah 3:2-3
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
- Matthew 5:43-44
Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray. Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
- Matthew 24:10-12
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.
- Luke 6:22-23
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.
- Luke 6:27-28
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
- John 3:20
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
- John 15:18-19
I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- John 17:14
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
- Romans 12:9
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- Titus 3:3
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now. He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- 1 John 2:9-11
Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
- 1 John 3:13-15
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
- 1 John 4:20-21



