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Bible Verses About Hatred
Find Bible verses about hatred — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about hatred?
The Bible addresses hatred with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Proverbs 10:12
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.”
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Proverbs 15:17
“Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.”
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
“So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.”
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Proverbs 10:18
“He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.”
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Luke 21:17
“You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.”
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John 15:23
“He who hates me, hates my Father also.”
Luke 23:21
“but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"”
Genesis 37:4
“His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably to him.”
Esther 5:13
“Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."”
1 John 3:15
“Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.”
1 John 2:9
“He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.”
2 Samuel 13:15
“Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. Amnon said to her, "Arise, be gone!"”
Psalms 109:5
“They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.”
Psalms 109:3
“They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.”
Genesis 27:41
“Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."”
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Deuteronomy 19:11 — “But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes h...”
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