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Matthew 5:43 μισήσεις will hate

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor’ and ‘Hate your enemy.’

Here: "You shall hate", in the same command form as "you shall love", so it sounds like law. In Semitic usage "hate" can mean rejecting someone, refusing them loyalty, or putting them outside the circle of obligation. It can also mean real hostility.

Matthew 6:24 μισήσει he will hate

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Here: In this Semitic pairing with 'love', it means to reject, set aside or rank below as much as to feel hostility. The future tense predicts what will inevitably happen.

Matthew 10:22 μισούμενοι hated

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Here: "Being hated", present participle. Together with "you will be" it means "you will be people who are continually hated", an ongoing state of hostility, not one bad day.

Matthew 24:9 μισούμενοι hated

Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

Here: 'Being hated', present passive participle: 'you will go on being hated'. Hostility as a settled condition of life, the kind that leads to the handing over and killing just mentioned.

Matthew 24:10 μισήσουσιν they will hate

At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,

Here: Real hostility. It echoes verse 9, 'you will be hated by all the nations': the hatred of the world now appears among the disciples themselves.

Mark 13:13 μισούμενοι hated

You will be hated by everyone because of My name, but the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Here: "Being hated". The present participle after "you will be" pictures a continuing condition: you will live as people who are hated. The word covers hostile feeling and also active rejection: shunning, disowning, treating someone as an enemy. Verse 12 shows how far it goes: betrayal to death.

Luke 1:71 μισούντων hating

salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

Here: Present participle: those who keep on hating, who are continually hostile. In biblical usage 'hating' describes active enmity and opposition, not only a feeling.

Luke 6:22 μισήσωσιν may hate

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

Here: Active hostility and rejection. This is the attitude that produces the actions that follow.

Luke 6:27 μισοῦσιν hating

But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Here: Present participle: people who keep on hating you. Picks up v. 22 ('when people hate you'), where hatred takes the form of exclusion, insult and ruining your name.

Luke 14:26 μισεῖ he hates

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Here: In the Hebrew-shaped idiom Jesus uses, this means to put someone decisively second and refuse their claim when it competes with another loyalty. It is about choice and allegiance, not an emotion of hostility. The present tense describes a standing orientation, not a single outburst.

Luke 16:13 μισήσει he will hate

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Here: In the Semitic idiom of choosing between two, 'hate' means to reject or set aside, as opposed to the one you prefer. The future tense states what will inevitably happen, not a prediction about feelings.

Luke 19:14 ἐμίσουν were hating

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

Here: Imperfect tense: 'they were hating him', an ongoing hostility already there before they acted. In context it means active political enmity. Verse 27 calls them 'my enemies'.

Luke 21:17 μισούμενοι hated

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.

Here: Present passive participle: 'being hated', an ongoing state. The word covers hostility, rejection and active opposition, not only a feeling. Verse 16 shows what that looks like in practice: being handed over and even killed.

John 3:20 μισεῖ hates

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Here: Present tense: a settled hostility or aversion toward the light. The next clause shows how it comes out in practice: the person stays away.

John 7:7 μισεῖν μισεῖ, to hate, it hates,

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.

Here: Active hostility and rejection, not just disliking someone. Here it has already turned into plans to kill (7:1, 7:19).

John 12:25 μισῶν hating

Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Here: Present participle: the one who keeps on "hating", meaning refusing to cling to, disowning and putting second. This is the Semitic idiom of decisive preference, not an emotion of self-loathing. It is the exact opposite of philōn.

John 15:18 μισεῖ, μεμίσηκεν. hates,, it has hated.

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

Here: Present tense: an ongoing stance of hostility. The verses that follow show what it involves: persecution (15:20), expulsion from the synagogue and even killing (16:2). It is set directly against 'love one another' in the verse before.

John 15:19 μισεῖ hates

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

Here: Present tense, an ongoing attitude: active hostility, which in the following verses becomes persecution (15:20), expulsion and killing (16:2).

John 15:23 μισῶν μισεῖ. hating, hates.

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.

Here: Present participle: someone whose ongoing stance toward Jesus is hostility and rejection. In John this means refusing and opposing him, not only a feeling of dislike.

John 15:24 μεμισήκασιν have hated

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father.

Here: Also a perfect tense: they have hated, and that stance remains. It means active rejection and hostility, not just dislike.

John 15:25 ἐμίσησάν They hated

But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

Here: 'They hated.' The psalm's 'those who hate me' becomes a completed action. Jesus speaks of the rejection as already sealed, looking from the vantage of the cross.

John 17:14 ἐμίσησεν hated

I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Here: Aorist tense, which presents the act as a single whole: "hated." It means real hostility and rejection, the same hatred the world aimed at Jesus (15:18). It is not just dislike.

Romans 7:15 μισῶ I hate

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

Here: Settled rejection of something, not just a feeling of dislike. In v. 19 the hated thing is called "the evil" (to kakon). The speaker's will stands against it entirely.

Romans 9:13 ἐμίσησα.¶ I hated.

So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Ephesians 5:29 ἐμίσησεν, hated,

Indeed, no one ever hated his own body, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church.

Titus 3:3 μισοῦντες hating

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Here: Actively hating. Together with the previous word it completes a vicious circle: hated, and hating.

Hebrews 1:9 ἐμίσησας hated

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

Here: "You hated." This is real moral opposition: refusing wickedness any place, setting yourself against it. As in Hebrew usage, it is a settled stance of rejection, not a passing burst of anger.

1 John 2:9 μισῶν hating

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

Here: A present participle describing an ongoing stance. In John's either-or world it is the opposite of love. It covers everything from murderous hostility (3:12–15) to withholding practical care from a brother in need (3:17).

1 John 2:11 μισῶν hating

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Here: Present participle: "the one who keeps hating", an ongoing stance. In this letter, hating covers both open hostility and refusing a brother the love he is owed (3:15–17).

1 John 3:13 μισεῖ hates

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

Here: Present tense: ongoing hostility. In this passage hatred is Cain's attitude, and it ends in murder (vv. 12, 15). The word covers active hostility and rejection, not only a feeling of dislike.

1 John 3:15 μισῶν is hating

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

Here: Present participle: "the one who is hating," a settled stance rather than a passing flash of anger. In 1 John hate is the opposite of love, so it covers withholding love as well as active hostility (compare 3:14, 17).

1 John 4:20 μισῇ, may hate,

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Here: Present subjunctive: keeps on hating. In John's either-or world this covers active hostility and also the refusal to love that the next clause names ('the one not loving').

Jude 1:23 μισοῦντες hating

save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Here: A participle that goes with the mercy: while showing mercy, keep hating. It means strong rejection and revulsion. The object is not the person but the polluted garment.

Revelation 2:6 μισεῖς μισῶ. you hate, hate.

But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Here: Present tense: an ongoing, settled stance. It means active rejection and refusal to tolerate, not only a feeling. Its object is the Nicolaitans' works, not the people themselves.

Revelation 17:16 μισήσουσιν will hate

And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

Here: This is open, active hostility, not just dislike. Former partners become her enemies. The future tense is predictive: this will happen.

Revelation 18:2 μεμισημένου, hated,

And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.

Here: 'Having been hated': passive, describing something people loathe and find repulsive, not something that hates. The tense describes a lasting state. In the longer text it most naturally goes with the beasts; in the shorter text with the birds.