Psalms 139:21
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
BSB
ASV
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
KJV
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 17:8 (379)
Yet, it is not hard for us, if we wish it, to take up a love for justice and a hatred for iniquity. God has advantageously given all power to the rational soul, as that of loving, so also that of hating, in order that, guided by reason, we may love virtue but hate vice. It is possible at times to use hatred even praiseworthily. "Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated you and pined away because of your enemies? I have hated them with a perfect hatred."
Am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee, grieved to see their rebellion and to foresee their ruin, which it will certainly end in?" Note, Sin is hated, and sinners are lamented, by all that fear God. " I hate them " (that is, " I hate the work of them that turn aside, " as he explains himself, Ps. ci. 3 ) " with a sincere and perfect hatred;
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? He was a good hater, for he hated only those who hated good. Of this hatred he is not ashamed, but he sets it forth as a virtue to which he would have the Lord bear testimony. To love all men with benevolence is our duty; but to love any wicked man with complacency would be a crime.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Revelation 2:2I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.
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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. For you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not…
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2 Chronicles 19:2Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, the wrath of…
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Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
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Psalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
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Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.
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Psalms 26:5I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
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I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
