Tag: hate
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Hate Boundaries
12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,and I find knowledge and discretion.13The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil.Pride and arrogance and the way of eviland perverted speech I hate.–Proverbs 8 “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to…
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Love Your Enemies
43“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the…
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Jesus and the World
18“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.–John 15
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The Only Hate the Bible Allows
12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,and I find knowledge and discretion.13The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil.Pride and arrogance and the way of eviland perverted speech I hate.–Proverbs 8 Lady Wisdom was talking here in this proverb. This is God’s wisdom personified in a person. She is contrasted in Proverbs with Madam Folly. So let us…
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Cost [1-minute read]
25Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them, 26“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. 27Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot…
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Countercultural Jesus [1-minute read]
27“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.—Luke 6
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Hatred and Evil
12“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,and I find knowledge and discretion.13The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil.Pride and arrogance and the way of eviland perverted speech I hate.–Proverbs 8 Lady Wisdom was talking here in this proverb. This is God’s wisdom personified in a person. She is contrasted in Proverbs with Madam Folly. So let us…
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Hate Your Evil
10O you who love the LORD, hate evil!…–Psalm 97 Many would read a line like this from Psalm 97 and feel justified. They look at the evil in this world and then all of a sudden feel that noble urge within them to hate it in the name of the Lord. The problem is that hatred…