Top 18 Bible Verses about Hate …
What does the Bible teach about hate?
Should we hate?
Does God Hate?
How should we react when someone hates us?
Read these Top 18 Bible Verses about Hate …
1 John 4:20
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
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
1 John 3:15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
Leviticus 19:17
“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.
1 John 2:9
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
1 John 2:11
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:8
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
John 15:18-25
“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. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. …
Luke 21:17
You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.
1 John 3:13
Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.
Psalm 45:7
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Matthew 5:44
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
How should we react when people hate us?
Luke 6:22-24
“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! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
Matthew 24:9
“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.
Does God Hate?
Proverbs 6:16-19
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 5:5
The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.
Psalm 11:5
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.