Bible Verses about “love and hate”
The Bible contains 27 verses about love and hate across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“If you love me, keep my commandments.”
“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,”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.'”
“"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,”
“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.”
“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
“My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.”
“The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.”
“"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.”
“You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.”