haters
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5Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take. 6O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.
18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.
29having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;
29having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping; 30slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. 32And these, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who act in such a manner are deserving of death, and not only those who do these things, but also those who consent to what is done.
14And no wonder, for even Satan presents himself as if he were an Angel of light.
12By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me. 13But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.
8Be sober and vigilant. For your adversary, the devil, is like a roaring lion, traveling around and seeking those whom he might devour.
6But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
8Do not be willing to argue with a mocker, lest he hate you. Dispute with the wise, and he will love you.
27But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
44You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.
23For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
2Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,