In the biblical account, those who oppose and despise God's people are a recurring theme. The Psalms, such as Psalms 69, express the pain and sorrow of being hated without cause. Jesus teaches in John 15:18 that the world's hatred is a natural consequence of following Him, as the world is in opposition to God. The apostle Paul, in Romans 1:29-32, describes the characteristics of those who hate God and His people, including envy and strife, while 2 Corinthians 11:14 warns of the deceptive nature of such opponents.
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Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay. You know my folly, O God, and my guilt is not hidden from You.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me. In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Do not rebuke a mocker, or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,