Bible verses about "hatred" | Mace

⁴³ You have heard that it hath been said, "you shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy:" ⁴⁴ but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you: ⁴⁵ that ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

¹⁹ now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness, ²⁰ brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings, ²¹ drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹ you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain. ² you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did, ³ you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified. ⁴ Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God. ⁵ or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?" ⁶ on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you. wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble." ⁷ Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident. ⁹ be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation. ¹⁰ humble your selves before the Lord, and he will raise you up. ¹¹ Don't, my brethren, treat one another with detraction. he that reflects upon his brother, and censures his brother, reflects upon the law, and censures the law: if you censure the law, instead of obeying it, you set up for a judge. ¹² there is but one legislator, and judge, he that has the power of life and death: who art thou, to pass sentence upon another? ¹³ As for you, who affirm, "to-day, or, to-morrow we will go to such a city, we will stay there a whole year, there we will traffic, and find our account." ¹⁴ how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, "what is your life?" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes. ¹⁵ your language ought to be this, "if the Lord pleases to give us life, we shall do this, or that." ¹⁶ you triumph in your vain projects, but your presumption is vicious. ¹⁷ he then that knows what is virtuous, and does not practise it, is a criminal.

²⁷ But as for you, who hear me, love your enemies: do good to those, who hate you: bless those, who curse you: ²⁸ and pray for those, who maliciously abuse you. ²⁹ if any one strike you on one cheek, present to him the other likewise: or if any one seize your cloak, surrender your coat also. ³⁰ give to all that ask: and if a man takes away your goods, don't demand them again. ³¹ behave to others in the same manner, as you desire they would behave to you. ³² for if you only love those, who love you, where's the obligation? the very heathen return love for love. ³³ if you return one kind office by another, where's the obligation? the heathen themselves do as much. ³⁴ if you lend with the expectation of gaining by it, where's the obligation? for the heathen lend to one another, for the prospect of an equivalent. ³⁵ but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches. ³⁶ be ye therefore merciful, as your father is merciful.

¹⁸ if the world hate you, consider that it hated me before it hated you.

¹¹ but he that hates his brother, is in darkness, he walks in darkness, and knows not whither he is going, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

⁴⁴ but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you:

¹⁵ but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.

⁹ he that says, he is in the light, and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness.

²⁰ if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible?