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100 Bible Verses about Hating Your Brother

1 John 3:15 ESV / 647 helpful votes

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 535 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Leviticus 19:17 ESV / 366 helpful votes

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

1 John 2:9 ESV / 313 helpful votes

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

Luke 14:26 ESV / 278 helpful votes

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 258 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 John 2:11 ESV / 245 helpful votes

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 230 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 217 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 213 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 201 helpful votes

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Genesis 4:9 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?”

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 196 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 194 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 189 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 187 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

1 John 3:14-15 ESV / 183 helpful votes

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 180 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 176 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 173 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Psalm 133:1 ESV / 170 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 165 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 164 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 163 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 162 helpful votes

O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 156 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 154 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 5:22 ESV / 154 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

Leviticus 19:17-18 ESV / 149 helpful votes

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Proverbs 18:19 ESV / 146 helpful votes

A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

1 John 4:19-20 ESV / 142 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 141 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 139 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 136 helpful votes

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

John 15:18 ESV / 133 helpful votes

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

2 Samuel 1:26 ESV / 133 helpful votes

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 132 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

1 John 2:8-11 ESV / 131 helpful votes

At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Matthew 5:21 ESV / 130 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’

Romans 9:13 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

John 13:34 ESV / 123 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 John 2:9-11 ESV / 121 helpful votes

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Matthew 5:21-22 ESV / 121 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 112 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

John 15:12 ESV / 112 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Matthew 4:18 ESV / 112 helpful votes

While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

1 John 3:16 ESV / 109 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Malachi 1:2 ESV / 108 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

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 108 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

1 John 3:18 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 104 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

John 13:34-35 ESV / 103 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Hebrews 13:1-2 ESV / 102 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Matthew 10:21 ESV / 100 helpful votes

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Micah 7:6 ESV / 100 helpful votes

For the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 99 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 97 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:17 ESV / 97 helpful votes

Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 96 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

1 John 4:20-21 ESV / 95 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Deuteronomy 21:15 ESV / 95 helpful votes

“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Genesis 37:4 ESV / 94 helpful votes

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

John 8:44 ESV / 89 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 88 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Mark 13:12 ESV / 87 helpful votes

And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

Matthew 24:9 ESV / 87 helpful votes

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake.

Genesis 27:41 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Matthew 18:21 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 86 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.

1 Samuel 18:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes

As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 83 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? ...

Luke 21:16 ESV / 81 helpful votes

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

Jeremiah 12:6 ESV / 81 helpful votes

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.”

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Psalm 26:5 ESV / 78 helpful votes

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

Psalm 45:7 ESV / 75 helpful votes

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;

Psalm 31:6 ESV / 74 helpful votes

I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the Lord.

Matthew 18:21-22 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 71 helpful votes

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 71 helpful votes

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.

1 John 2:9-17 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father. ...

1 John 4:19 ESV / 64 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 63 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 60 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 ESV / 59 helpful votes

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; ...

John 13:35 ESV / 58 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Matthew 12:50 ESV / 56 helpful votes

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 10:37 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 5:21-24 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire. So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

John 14:15 ESV / 47 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Genesis 32:22-32 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had. And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” ...

Genesis 29:15-35 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.” ...

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