Hating Evil

September 12, 2025
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Psalm 139:19-24

O God, that You would slay the wicked—
away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

who speak of You deceitfully;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.

Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD,
and detest those who rise against You?

I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them as my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my concerns.

See if there is any offensive way in me;
lead me in the way everlasting.

Proverbs 8:13

To fear the LORD is to hate evil;
I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who turn darkness to light
and light to darkness,
who replace bitter with sweet
and sweet with bitter.

Romans 12:9

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

Psalm 101:3-4

I will set no worthless thing
before my eyes.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will know nothing of evil.

John 3:19-21

And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.

Proverbs 4:14-19

Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.

Avoid it; do not travel on it.
Turn from it and pass on by.

For they cannot sleep
unless they do evil;

they are deprived of slumber
until they make someone fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
shining brighter and brighter until midday.

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
they do not know what makes them stumble.

Psalm 45:7

You have loved righteousness
and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
above your companions with the oil of joy.

Ephesians 5:11-13

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.