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Bible Verses About Hatred

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  1. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

  2. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  3. An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.

  4. When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.

  5. He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

  6. And the king thought to set him over all the kingdom; whereupon the princes, and the governors, sought to find occasion against Daniel, with regard to the king: and they could find no cause, nor suspicion, because he was faithful, and no fault, nor suspicion was found in him.

  7. Then these men said: We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, unless perhaps concerning the law of his God.

  8. Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever:

  9. All the princes of the kingdom, the magistrates, and governors, the senators, and judges, have consulted together, that an imperial decree, and an edict be published: That whosoever shall ask any petition of any god, or man, for thirty days, but of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of the lions.

  10. Now, therefore, O king, confirm the sentence, and sign the decree: that what is decreed by the Medes and Persians may not be altered, nor any man be allowed to transgress it.

  11. So king Darius set forth the decree, and established it.

  12. Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.

  13. Wherefore those men carefully watching him, found Daniel praying and making supplication to his God.

  14. And they came and spoke to the king concerning the edict: O king, hast thou not decreed, that every man that should make a request to any of the gods, or men, for thirty days, but to thyself, O king, should be cast into the den of the lions? And the king answered them, saying: The word is true, according to the decree of the Medes and Persians, which it is not lawful to violate.

  15. Then they answered, and said before the king: Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Juda, hath not regarded thy law, nor the decree that thou hast made: but three times a day he maketh his prayer.

  16. Now when the king had heard these words, he was very much grieved, and in behalf of Daniel he set his heart to deliver him, and even till sunset he laboured to save him.

  17. But those men perceiving the king's design, said to him: Know thou, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, that no decree which the king hath made, may be altered.

  18. You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.

  19. But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

  20. If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you.

  21. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

  22. He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

  23. If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin: but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.

  24. But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: they hated me without cause.

  25. Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,