Bible Verses about “hating people”
The Bible contains 26 verses about hating people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."”
“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”
“If you love me, keep my commandments.”
“haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;”
“a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.”
“a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,”
“But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
“"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.'”
“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”
“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.”
“Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;”
“therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.”
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
“Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.”
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
“He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."”
“Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?”
“Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.”
“How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?"”
“Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.”
“But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.”
“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.”
“He who hates me, hates my Father also.”
“If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.”
“But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, 'They hated me without a cause.'”