Bible Verses About Hating Others
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hating others, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 41,916 votes, led by 1 John 3:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hating Others
1 John 3:151,025 votes
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Proverbs 10:18757 votes
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 10:12747 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
1 John 2:9718 votes
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Ephesians 4:31708 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Proverbs 8:13688 votes
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Matthew 10:22676 votes
And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Psalms 97:10629 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.
Psalms 5:5628 votes
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Romans 12:19628 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 John 3:14-15626 votes
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
John 14:15622 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Leviticus 19:17-18600 votes
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Leviticus 19:17595 votes
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Romans 12:9591 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
John 15:18580 votes
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Proverbs 6:16-19577 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Revelation 1:1535 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Psalms 11:5519 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Psalms 26:5511 votes
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Matthew 5:23-24509 votes
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
1 John 4:20508 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?
Matthew 24:9500 votes
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.
1 John 4:19-20487 votes
We love him, because he first loved us.
Psalms 31:6481 votes
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
What does the Bible say about hating others?
Readers most often cite 1 John 3:15 on the subject of hating others. Across 41,916 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 10:18, Proverbs 10:12, 1 John 2:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.