What are some Bible verses about hate?

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1 John 4:20  

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.  
  

Proverbs 10:12  

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.  
  

1 John 3:15  

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.  
  

Proverbs 6:16\-19  

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.  
  

Leviticus 19:17\-18  

You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.  
  

1 Corinthians 13:4\-7  

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  
  

John 15:18  

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.  
  

Proverbs 8:13  

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.  
  

Psalm 97:10  

O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.  
  

Matthew 10:22  

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  
  

Proverbs 10:18  

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.  
  

Psalm 11:5  

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.  
  

Luke 14:26  

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.  
  

Proverbs 26:24\-26  

Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.  
  

John 7:7  

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.  
  

Psalm 119:163  

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.  
  

Psalm 26:5  

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.  
  

Psalm 101:3  

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.  
  

Ecclesiastes 3:8  

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

Proverbs 20:22  

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.  
  

*Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.*  
  

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