'Hate' in the Bible

Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."

But you choose from the people capable men, God-fearing, men of truth, those who hate bribes, and put them over the people as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, "Rise up, O Lord! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!"

but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

The Lord will protect you from all sickness, and you will not experience any of the terrible diseases that you knew in Egypt; instead he will inflict them on all those who hate you.

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative; you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and repay those who hate me!

Bless, O Lord, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.

So Samson's bride cried on his shoulder and said, "You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution." He said to her, "Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?"

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don't matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.

He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hate me, for they were too strong for me.

You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more."

Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who behave wickedly.

when they prayed: "Have mercy on me, Lord! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!

He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hate me, for they were too strong for me.

You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you.

Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.

I hate the mob of evil men, and do not associate with the wicked.

I hate those who serve worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Evil people self-destruct; those who hate the godly are punished.

Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!

But those who are my enemies for no reason are numerous; those who hate me without cause outnumber me.

All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.

For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us.

You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.

You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.

For you hate instruction and reject my words.

Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!

Rescue me from the mud! Don't let me sink! Deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep water!

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.

Show me evidence of your favor! Then those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, for you, O Lord, will help me and comfort me.

I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him.

You who love the Lord, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power of the wicked.

I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.

He caused them to hate his people, and to mistreat his servants.

They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

The Lord is on my side as my helper. I look in triumph on those who hate me.

Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions.

(Samek) I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.

For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions.

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

For too long I have had to reside with those who hate peace.

May all who hate Zion be humiliated and turned back!

O Lord, do I not hate those who hate you, and despise those who oppose you?

I absolutely hate them, they have become my enemies!

"How long will you simpletons love naivet?? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death."

Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

Don't set foot too frequently in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

Bloodthirsty people hate someone with integrity; as for the upright, they seek his life.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.

For I, the Lord, love justice and hate robbery and sin. I will repay them because of my faithfulness; I will make a permanent covenant with them.

Hear the word of the Lord, you who respect what he has to say! Your countrymen, who hate you and exclude you, supposedly for the sake of my name, say, "May the Lord be glorified, then we will witness your joy." But they will be put to shame.

"I hate their deeds and thoughts! So I am coming to gather all the nations and ethnic groups; they will come and witness my splendor.

The people I call my own have turned on me like a lion in the forest. They have roared defiantly at me. So I will treat them as though I hate them.

I sent my servants the prophets to you people over and over again warning you not to do this disgusting thing I hate.

So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

"For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to deliver you over to those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.

Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels.

The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly.

Hate what is wrong, love what is right! Promote justice at the city gate! Maybe the Lord, the God who commands armies, will have mercy on those who are left from Joseph.

The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: "I despise Jacob's arrogance; I hate their fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies the city of Samaria and everything in it."

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

Listen to this, you leaders of the family of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel! You hate justice and pervert all that is right.

"I will not overlook, O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much.

Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath -- these are all things that I hate,' says the Lord."

"I hate divorce," says the Lord God of Israel, "and the one who is guilty of violence," says the Lord who rules over all. "Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful."

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor' and 'hate your enemy.'

"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

that we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us.

"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

"But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate.

But you do have this going for you: You hate what the Nicolaitans practice -- practices I also hate.

The ten horns that you saw, and the beast -- these will hate the prostitute and make her desolate and naked. They will consume her flesh and burn her up with fire.