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100 Bible Verses about Self Hate

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 250 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 207 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:29 ESV / 171 helpful votes

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

Romans 5:8 ESV / 171 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Timothy 3:1-2 ESV / 166 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Romans 12:9 ESV / 165 helpful votes

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

John 15:18 ESV / 165 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 162 helpful votes

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

Psalm 5:5 ESV / 162 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 19:17-18 ESV / 162 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 15:32 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 156 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 John 3:15 ESV / 155 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 130 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 129 helpful votes

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

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 128 helpful votes

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 128 helpful votes

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 126 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.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 126 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 125 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 125 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Luke 6:27 ESV / 125 helpful votes

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Leviticus 19:17 ESV / 125 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.

Ephesians 2:4-5 ESV / 124 helpful votes

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

1 John 4:19-20 ESV / 123 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.

1 John 3:14-15 ESV / 123 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 / 123 helpful votes

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

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 123 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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.

Ecclesiastes 2:17-18 ESV / 123 helpful votes

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind. I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 123 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.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 122 helpful votes

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

Mark 12:31 ESV / 122 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Matthew 24:9 ESV / 121 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.

Matthew 10:22 ESV / 121 helpful votes

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 120 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV / 119 helpful votes

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 119 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.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 115 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Psalm 26:5 ESV / 115 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 112 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.

Hebrews 12:15 ESV / 91 helpful votes

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 91 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

John 3:16 ESV / 89 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.

Proverbs 16:4 ESV / 89 helpful votes

The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 85 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 John 2:9 ESV / 84 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 84 helpful votes

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

John 13:1-38 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ...

Luke 6:27-28 ESV / 84 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.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 84 helpful votes

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.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 83 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 83 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

John 7:7 ESV / 83 helpful votes

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 83 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 83 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Revelation 2:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 82 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 John 2:16-17 ESV / 82 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 Peter 1:18-19 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

1 Timothy 6:17-21 ESV / 82 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 1:5 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,

2 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 82 helpful votes

So you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

1 Corinthians 15:19 ESV / 82 helpful votes

If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

Romans 7:23-24 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

Luke 9:62 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 5:43-45 ESV / 82 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.

Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 82 helpful votes

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 8:36 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

Psalm 103:9 ESV / 82 helpful votes

He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.

Psalm 68:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

Psalm 51:8-12 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 36:7 ESV / 82 helpful votes

How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 34:17-20 ESV / 82 helpful votes

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Psalm 34:1-22 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. ...

Psalm 16:8-11 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Exodus 20:1-17 ESV / 82 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Exodus 19:1-25 ESV / 82 helpful votes

On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; ...

1 John 3:18 ESV / 80 helpful votes

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

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 80 helpful votes

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 80 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Luke 12:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 79 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:7 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:13 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 5:20 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

John 17:14 ESV / 78 helpful votes

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 78 helpful votes

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

Psalm 139:22 ESV / 78 helpful votes

I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.

Psalm 119:163 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

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