Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.
I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.
Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.
My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.
in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the Lord; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
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