Bible Verses About Hate
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hate, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 146,092 votes, led by 1 John 4:20. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hate
1 John 4:204,583 votes
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 10:124,128 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 8:133,964 votes
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Psalms 97:103,525 votes
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 15:183,459 votes
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
1 John 3:153,060 votes
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Proverbs 6:16-192,971 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Leviticus 19:17-182,784 votes
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Matthew 10:222,539 votes
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Proverbs 10:182,415 votes
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Psalms 11:51,887 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
John 7:71,837 votes
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Proverbs 26:24-261,726 votes
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;
1 Corinthians 13:4-71,703 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Psalms 119:1631,681 votes
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Luke 14:261,569 votes
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 13:34-351,546 votes
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Romans 12:91,535 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Psalms 45:71,480 votes
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
John 17:141,461 votes
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 26:51,414 votes
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalms 31:61,346 votes
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
Romans 12:1-211,296 votes
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.
Matthew 6:241,268 votes
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 19:171,159 votes
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.