Bible Verses About Hostility

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

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

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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

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

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

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;

They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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

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

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

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;

Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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

And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: