22 Bible Verses about People Being Hated

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.

Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

And Ahithophel saith unto Absalom, 'Go in unto the concubines of thy father, whom he left to keep the house, and all Israel hath heard that thou hast been abhorred by thy father, and the hands of all who are with thee have been strong.'

My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.

Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: 'Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.

Instead of thy being forsaken and hated, And none passing through, I have made thee for an excellency age-during, A joy of generation and generation.

And lo, I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I diminish thy portion, And give thee to the desire of those hating thee, The daughters of the Philistines, Who are ashamed of thy wicked way.

Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness.

And they have dealt with thee in hatred, And they have taken all thy labour, And they have left thee naked and bare, And revealed hath been the nakedness of thy whoredoms, And the wickedness of thy whoredoms.

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

then they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end -- he shall be saved.

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name --

Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.