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Want to know what the Bible says about Hate? Here are 188 Bible verses about Hate from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Ecclesiastes 3:8 NIV
    a time to love and a time to hate,
    a time for war and a time for peace.
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Proverbs 20:22 NIV
Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!”
    Wait for the Lord, and he will avenge you.
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Psalm 31:6 NIV
I hate those who cling to worthless idols;
    as for me, I trust in the Lord.
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Romans 5:8 NIV
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Malachi 1:3 NIV
but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.
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Titus 3:2 NIV
to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.
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Proverbs 15:17 NIV
Better a small serving of vegetables with love
    than a fattened calf with hatred.
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John 17:14 NIV
I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
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Psalm 119:104 NIV
I gain understanding from your precepts;
    therefore I hate every wrong path.
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Genesis 26:27 NIV
Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?
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Malachi 2:16 NIV
“The man who hates and divorces his wife, ” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,” says the Lord Almighty.
So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.
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Acts 10:26-28 NIV
26 But Peter made him get up. “Stand up,” he said, “I am only a man myself.”
27 While talking with him, Peter went inside and found a large gathering of people. 28 He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.
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Proverbs 28:23 NIV
Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor
    rather than one who has a flattering tongue.
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Revelation 2:6 NIV
But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
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Matthew 26:50 NIV
Jesus replied, “Do what you came for, friend.”
Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.
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Joshua 11:20 NIV
For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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2 Chronicles 19:2-3 NIV
2 Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the wrath of the Lord is on you. 3 There is, however, some good in you, for you have rid the land of the Asherah poles and have set your heart on seeking God.
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Matthew 3:4-7 NIV
4 John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. 5 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan. 6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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Deuteronomy 1:17 NIV
Do not show partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be afraid of anyone, for judgment belongs to God. Bring me any case too hard for you, and I will hear it.”
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2 Chronicles 19:2 NIV
Jehu the seer, the son of Hanani, went out to meet him and said to the king, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the wrath of the Lord is on you.
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