What Does the Bible Say About Does God Hate Any Of His Children?

1 John 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. ...

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Romans 10:9-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 9:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Romans 9:10-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

Romans 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Genesis 27:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

Genesis 27:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.”

Romans 9:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

Romans 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Malachi 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob's brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Genesis 27:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 27:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”

Genesis 27:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.

Genesis 27:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Genesis 27:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

Genesis 27:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

Genesis 27:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,

Genesis 27:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,

Genesis 26:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,

Revelation 22:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

Titus 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Romans 10:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

Romans 3:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

34 Bible Verses about Does God Hate Any Of His Children

1 John 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 10:9-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 9:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 27:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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Romans 9:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Malachi 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 27:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Revelation 22:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Titus 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Does God Hate Any Of His Children

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1 John 4:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Romans 5:1-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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Romans 9:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 27:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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