Bible Verses About Hating Someone
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for hating someone, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,496 votes, led by Luke 6:27-36. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Hating Someone
Luke 6:27-36288 votes
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
1 John 3:15243 votes
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Romans 12:19179 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 2:9175 votes
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1 John 4:19-21146 votes
We love him, because he first loved us.
1 Timothy 5:8112 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Proverbs 6:16-1987 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Ephesians 4:2686 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
1 John 2:1179 votes
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Luke 10:2773 votes
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Mark 11:2572 votes
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
1 John 4:2071 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?
2 Peter 3:960 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Romans 8:1856 votes
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
1 John 3:1449 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.
Psalms 97:1048 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 5:545 votes
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
John 14:1545 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Luke 14:2644 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.
Matthew 6:14-1540 votes
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
John 7:740 votes
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Psalms 11:538 votes
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
1 John 3:14-1538 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 15:1837 votes
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Psalms 26:536 votes
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
What does the Bible say about hating someone?
Readers most often cite Luke 6:27-36 on the subject of hating someone. Across 3,496 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 3:15, Romans 12:19, 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.