Bible verses about "hatred" | WNT

⁴³ "You have heard that it was said, 'THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR and hate thine enemy.' ⁴⁴ But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors; ⁴⁵ that so you may become true sons of your Father in Heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the wicked as well as the good, and sends rain upon those who do right and those who do wrong.

¹⁹ Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery; ²⁰ enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings; ²¹ hard drinking, riotous feasting, and the like. And as to these I forewarn you, as I have already forewarned you, that those who are guilty of such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.

¹ What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures? ² You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray; ³ or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another. ⁴ You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God. ⁵ Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us"? ⁶ But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "GOD SETS HIMSELF AGAINST THE HAUGHTY, BUT TO THE LOWLY HE GIVES GRACE." ⁷ Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God. ⁹ Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you. ¹¹ Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it. ¹² The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man? ¹³ Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business," ¹⁴ when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more. ¹⁵ Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that." ¹⁶ But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.

²⁷ "But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies; seek the welfare of those who hate you; ²⁸ bless those who curse you; pray for those who revile you. ²⁹ To him who gives you a blow on one side of the face offer the other side also; and to him who is robbing you of your outer garment refuse not the under one also. ³⁰ To every one who asks, give; and from him who takes away your property, do not demand it back. ³¹ And behave to your fellow men just as you would have them behave to you. ³² "If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them. ³³ And if you are kind to those who are kind to you, what credit is it to you? Even bad men act thus. ³⁴ And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount. ³⁵ Nevertheless love your enemies, be beneficent; and lend without hoping for any repayment. Then your recompense shall be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

¹¹ But he who hates his brother man is in darkness and is walking in darkness; and he does not know where he is going--because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

⁴⁴ But I command you all, love your enemies, and pray for your persecutors;

¹⁵ but if you do not forgive others their offences, neither will your Father forgive yours.

⁹ Any one who professes to be in the light and yet hates his brother man is still in darkness.

²⁰ If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.