Bible Verses About Enmity

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.