Bible Verses about “hatred”
The Bible contains 41 verses about hatred across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”
“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“But if you don't forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”
“But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,”
“If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.”
“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”
“"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,”
“But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”
“"As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.”
“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”
“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”
“Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?”
“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”
“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”
“If you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much.”
“Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.”
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.”
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”
“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.”
“If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.”
“Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."”
“For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."”
“bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.”
“Give to everyone who asks you, and don't ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.”
“But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.”
“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.”
“To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.”
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.”
“His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.”
“Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?”
“Don't say, "I will pay back evil." Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.”
“A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.”
“When his speech is charming, don't believe him; for there are seven abominations in his heart.”
“Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.”
“He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.”
“"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.”