Hatred: Scriptures Relating To

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.

Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

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

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. …

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,

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

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

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. …

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.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

…idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

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.

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. …

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.