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Bible Verses About Hatred

This collection includes 50 passages about Hatred. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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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.

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He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

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

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Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

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The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

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

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I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

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He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

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Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

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

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And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

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

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Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

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

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

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

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I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

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

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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.

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

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They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

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I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

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

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When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

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For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

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

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Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

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He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

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And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

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Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

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Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

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They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

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If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

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

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