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100 Bible Verses about Hate The Sin Love The Sinner

Psalm 5:4-6 ESV / 385 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. You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Psalm 15:1-5 ESV / 373 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend; 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; who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 372 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 367 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.

Psalm 139:21-22 ESV / 367 helpful votes

Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 334 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:113 ESV / 329 helpful votes

I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 237 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 20:23 ESV / 224 helpful votes

And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.

Psalm 5:5-6 ESV / 222 helpful votes

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 218 helpful votes

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

Psalm 11:5-6 ESV / 215 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 188 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 186 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 97:10 ESV / 184 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 5:6 ESV / 173 helpful votes

You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 172 helpful votes

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

Jude 1:23 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Hosea 9:15 ESV / 170 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.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 167 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:8 ESV / 153 helpful votes

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

Revelation 2:6 ESV / 146 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 141 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.

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 130 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 125 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:6-8 ESV / 122 helpful votes

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 5:43-44 ESV / 121 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,

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 120 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 113 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 119:53 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.

Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 107 helpful votes

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 100 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

James 1:15 ESV / 98 helpful votes

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Jude 1:22-23 ESV / 97 helpful votes

And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.

Psalm 7:11 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 77 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Romans 5:6 ESV / 75 helpful votes

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 75 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.

Amos 5:15 ESV / 75 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.

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 73 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

James 4:4 ESV / 70 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.

John 3:36 ESV / 70 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.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 69 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

John 5:14 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 68 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 26:5 ESV / 67 helpful votes

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

Psalm 26:3-6 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness. I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

Hebrews 1:9 ESV / 66 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:9-10 ESV / 63 helpful votes

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:104 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:4 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 58 helpful votes

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

Psalm 5:4-5 ESV / 58 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.

1 John 1:10 ESV / 57 helpful votes

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 57 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Romans 8:1 ESV / 57 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Jeremiah 15:17 ESV / 57 helpful votes

I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.

Jude 1:22 ESV / 56 helpful votes

And have mercy on those who doubt;

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 56 helpful votes

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 55 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:9-13 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 54 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.

Luke 23:34 ESV / 54 helpful votes

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Matthew 23:37 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!

1 John 1:8-9 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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.

Malachi 1:2-3 ESV / 52 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.”

Psalm 145:20 ESV / 50 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Psalm 45:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Ephesians 5:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Romans 12:20-21 ESV / 44 helpful votes

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 2:1-4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Romans 7:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 40 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.

Luke 14:26 ESV / 40 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.

Matthew 22:37-40 ESV / 40 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 39 helpful votes

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Mark 16:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Psalm 26:1-5 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Of David. Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind. For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness. I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

Romans 9:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:18 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

James 1:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

John 15:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

John 8:44 ESV / 30 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.

1 John 4:8-9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV / 29 helpful votes

If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 24 helpful votes

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 24 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. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

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