What Does the Bible Say About Your Family Hates You?

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

Luke 6:22 ESV / 28 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!

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 26 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.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 19 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.

1 John 2:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

John 15:18-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 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. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

1 John 2:11 ESV / 13 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.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 12 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.”

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

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.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Luke 14:26 ESV / 9 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.

1 John 3:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 8 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.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 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.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Revelation 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

Revelation 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. ...

Ephesians 5:28-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

John 10:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 21:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

Ephesians 6:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 15:23-25 ESV / 3 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.’

John 15:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘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. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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.

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Amos 5:15 ESV / 2 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 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 2 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 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

55 Bible Verses about Your Family Hates You

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 6:22 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:18-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 2:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 6:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 1:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 14:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 3:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:28-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 21:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:23-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 15:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 11:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 101:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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