YOU HATE ALL WICKED PEOPLE.
–Psalm 5:5 (GNT)–
I HAVE HATED THE CONGREGATION OF EVIL DOERS;
and will not sit with the wicked.
–Psalm 26:5 (KJV)–
I HAVE HATED THEM THAT REGARD LYING VANITIES:
but I trust in the Lord.
–Psalm 31:6 (KJV)–
LORD, DON’T I HATE THOSE WHO HATE YOU,
and detest those who rebel against You?
–Psalm 139:21 (HCSB)–
Hate what is evil;
cling to what is good.
–Romans 12:9 (NIV)–
You have loved righteousness
and hated wickedness.
–Hebrews 1:9 (NIV)–
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Leonard Ravenhill, “Be Ye Angry And Sin Not” (Last Days Ministries, 1985).
Benjamin Wadsworth, Fervent Zeal Against Flagrant Wickedness (Boston, 1718).
Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections (Banner of Truth, 1959). “The Scriptures place religion very much in the affection of love, in love to God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and love to the people of God, and to mankind. The texts in which this is manifest, both in the Old Testament and New, are innumerable. But of this more afterwards. The contrary affection of hatred also, as having sin for its object, is spoken of in Scripture as no inconsiderable part of true religion. It is spoken of as that by which true religion may be known and distinguished; Prov. 8:13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.” And accordingly the saints are called upon to give evidence of their sincerity by this; Ps. 97:10, “Ye that love the Lord hate evil.” And the Psalmist often mentions it as an evidence of his sincerity; Ps. 101:2, 3, “I will walk within my house with a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes; I hate the work of them that turn aside.” Ps. 119:104, “I hate every false way.” So ver. 127. Again, Ps. 139:21, “Do I not hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?””
