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• 1 John 4:20

  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

• Proverbs 8:13

  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

• Psalms 97:10

  Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

• John 15:18

  If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

• 1 John 3:15

  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

• Proverbs 6:16–19

  These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, …

• Leviticus 19:17–18

  Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

• Matthew 10:22

  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

• Proverbs 10:18

  He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

• Psalms 11:5

  The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

• John 7:7

  The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

• Proverbs 26:24–26

  He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him; When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart. Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; …

• Psalms 119:163

  I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.

• Luke 14:26

  If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

• John 13:34–35

  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

• Romans 12:9

  Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

• Psalms 45:7

  Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

• John 17:14

  I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

• Psalms 26:5

  I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

• Psalms 31:6

  I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

• Romans 12:1–21

  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. …

• Matthew 6:24

  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

• Leviticus 19:17

  Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

• Psalms 101:3

  I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

• 1 John 2:9

  He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

• Luke 6:27–28

  But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

• Ephesians 4:14–32

  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. …

• Ecclesiastes 3:8

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

• Luke 6:22

  Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

• Psalms 5:5

  The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

• Matthew 5:44

  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

• Matthew 24:9

  Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

• Proverbs 20:22

  Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

• Malachi 1:3

  And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

• Ephesians 4:31

  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

• Proverbs 15:17

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

• 1 John 3:14–15

  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

• Luke 6:27

  But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,