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100 Bible Verses about Hate

1 John 4:20 ESV / 4,597 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 10:12 ESV / 4,135 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 4,058 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 / 3,534 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.

John 15:18 ESV / 3,467 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:15 ESV / 3,072 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 2,985 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.

Leviticus 19:17-18 ESV / 2,791 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.

Matthew 10:22 ESV / 2,542 helpful votes

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 2,418 helpful votes

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

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 1,895 helpful votes

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

John 7:7 ESV / 1,840 helpful votes

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

Proverbs 26:24-26 ESV / 1,728 helpful votes

Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 1,706 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 1,683 helpful votes

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

Luke 14:26 ESV / 1,569 helpful votes

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 1,553 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Romans 12:9 ESV / 1,538 helpful votes

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

Psalm 45:7 ESV / 1,482 helpful votes

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

John 17:14 ESV / 1,462 helpful votes

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Psalm 26:5 ESV / 1,424 helpful votes

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

Psalm 31:6 ESV / 1,352 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 1,297 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 1,270 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.

Leviticus 19:17 ESV / 1,160 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.

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 1,140 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.

1 John 2:9 ESV / 1,105 helpful votes

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 1,090 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.

Ephesians 4:14-32 ESV / 1,088 helpful votes

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. ...

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 1,075 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:22 ESV / 1,054 helpful votes

“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 1,049 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 1,047 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Matthew 24:9 ESV / 1,018 helpful votes

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 1,012 helpful votes

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 1,007 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 1,002 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 989 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

1 John 3:14-15 ESV / 958 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 1:6 ESV / 949 helpful votes

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

Luke 6:27 ESV / 949 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 929 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.

1 John 2:11 ESV / 908 helpful votes

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

John 8:44 ESV / 879 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.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 865 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.”

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 854 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 842 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:19-20 ESV / 833 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.

Amos 5:15 ESV / 788 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.

Revelation 2:6 ESV / 777 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:43-45 ESV / 769 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

1 John 3:13 ESV / 745 helpful votes

Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

Titus 3:2 ESV / 681 helpful votes

To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 673 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Genesis 26:27 ESV / 670 helpful votes

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

James 4:1-17 ESV / 661 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 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. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? ...

Psalm 35:19 ESV / 649 helpful votes

Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 637 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Exodus 20:5 ESV / 634 helpful votes

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Luke 6:27-36 ESV / 625 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. To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. ...

Proverbs 26:1-28 ESV / 622 helpful votes

Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. ...

Luke 6:1-22:71 ESV / 600 helpful votes

On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” ...

1 John 4:7 ESV / 596 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 596 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 594 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Matthew 26:50 ESV / 592 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

Proverbs 8:1-13:25 ESV / 591 helpful votes

Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...

Joshua 11:20 ESV / 586 helpful votes

For it was the Lord's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 584 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.

Psalm 119:104 ESV / 573 helpful votes

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

John 3:20 ESV / 572 helpful votes

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

John 15:1-18:40 ESV / 571 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

1 John 1:6-2:23 ESV / 566 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. ...

Proverbs 15:1-16:33 ESV / 563 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. ...

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 557 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 553 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

John 15:19 ESV / 553 helpful votes

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

2 Samuel 19:1-43 ESV / 553 helpful votes

It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.” So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.” And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle. The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!” Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines, ...

Psalm 25:19 ESV / 534 helpful votes

Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 531 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:15 ESV / 527 helpful votes

But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

John 15:23-25 ESV / 525 helpful votes

Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’

James 1:19-20 ESV / 504 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

1 John 5:15 ESV / 501 helpful votes

And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 501 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Malachi 1:2-3 ESV / 491 helpful votes

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 488 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 481 helpful votes

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 476 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 476 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 476 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Leviticus 19:2 ESV / 476 helpful votes

“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

John 4:20-22 ESV / 471 helpful votes

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

Mark 11:24 ESV / 458 helpful votes

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 454 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

John 14:13 ESV / 454 helpful votes

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 454 helpful votes

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 454 helpful votes

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Psalm 115:3 ESV / 454 helpful votes

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

John 15:1-16:33 ESV / 453 helpful votes

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ...

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