Hatred: Scriptures Relating To
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Leviticus 19:17
You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.
Psalm 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.
Psalm 35:19
Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
Proverbs 10:12, 18
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions. / The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 15:17
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
Proverbs 26:24–26
A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. / When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. / Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
Matthew 5:43, 44
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’ / But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 6:15
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.
John 15:18, 19, 23–25
If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. / If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. / Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
John 17:14
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Galatians 5:19, 20
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
Ephesians 4:31
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
Colossians 3:8
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
1 John 2:9, 11
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness. / But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 John 3:10, 13–15
By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. / So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you. / Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
1 John 4:20
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.