Bible Verses about

Love Versus Hate


Matthew 5:44

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Romans 12:9

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Ecclesiastes 3:8

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

Luke 14:26

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.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

1 John 2:15

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

John 15:18

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

John 3:19

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Matthew 22:37

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Psalms 139:21

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

Romans 13:10

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 9:13

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.