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100 Bible Verses about God Hates Evil

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 93 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 90 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 78 helpful votes

O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 67 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

John 3:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 5:4-5 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

Zechariah 8:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”

Isaiah 61:8 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Revelation 2:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

James 4:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Psalm 145:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 45:7 ESV / 29 helpful votes

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

Romans 9:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

1 John 3:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Proverbs 6:16 ESV / 26 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:

Romans 3:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 8:44 ESV / 25 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 3:36 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Proverbs 15:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

Proverbs 6:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

Leviticus 19:17-18 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

John 3:20 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

Psalm 26:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Romans 5:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

John 15:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Amos 5:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Hosea 9:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 18 helpful votes

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.

Psalm 119:128 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.

Psalm 119:104 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

1 John 4:19-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 3:14-15 ESV / 16 helpful votes

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

But Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Ephesians 5:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 14 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Amos 5:14 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

James 4:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 1:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

Psalm 139:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 13 helpful votes

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Proverbs 15:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

Psalm 31:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

John 3:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Luke 6:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Proverbs 6:12-15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 5:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

Proverbs 15:8-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Hebrews 1:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

Romans 5:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Isaiah 55:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Proverbs 6:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

John 14:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 John 2:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Thessalonians 2:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Ezekiel 18:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live.”

Proverbs 6:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

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