Verb miseō (to hate) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

5: 43"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate (miseō) your enemy.'
6: 24"No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate (miseō) the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
10: 22and you will be hated (miseō) by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
24: 9"Then they will hand you over to be tortured and will put you to death, and you will be hated (miseō) by all nations because of my name.
24: 10Then many will fall away, and they will betray one another and hate (miseō) one another.

Mark

13: 13and you will be hated (miseō) by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Luke

1: 71that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate (miseō) us.
6: 22"Blessed are you when people hate (miseō) you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man.
6: 27"But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate (miseō) you,
14: 26"Whoever comes to me and does not hate (miseō) father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.
16: 13No slave can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate (miseō) the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."
19: 14But the citizens of his country hated (miseō) him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to rule over us.'
21: 17You will be hated (miseō) by all because of my name.

John

3: 20For all who do evil hate (miseō) the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
7: 7The world cannot hate (miseō) you, but it hates (miseō) me because I testify against it that its works are evil.
12: 25Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate (miseō) their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
15: 18"If the world hates (miseō) you, be aware that it hated (miseō) me before.
15: 19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world - therefore the world hates (miseō) you.
15: 23Whoever hates (miseō) me hates (miseō) my Father also.
15: 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated (miseō) both me and my Father.
15: 25It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated (miseō) me without a cause.'
17: 14I have given them your word, and the world has hated (miseō) them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

1 John

2: 9Whoever says, "I am in the light," while hating (miseō) a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.
2: 11But whoever hates (miseō) another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.
3: 13Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates (miseō) you.
3: 15All who hate (miseō) a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.
4: 20Those who say, "I love God," and hate (miseō) their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.

Romans

7: 15I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate (miseō).
9: 13As it is written, "I have loved Jacob, but I have hated (miseō) Esau."

Ephesians

5: 29For no one ever hates (miseō) his own body, but he nourishes and tenderly cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

Titus

3: 3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating (miseō) one another.

Hebrews

1: 9You have loved righteousness and hated (miseō) wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."

Jude

1: 23save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating (miseō) even the tunic defiled by their bodies.

Revelation

2: 6Yet this is to your credit: you hate (miseō) the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate (miseō).
17: 16And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate (miseō) the whore; they will make her desolate and naked; they will devour her flesh and burn her up with fire.
18: 2He called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! It has become a dwelling place of demons, a haunt of every foul spirit, a haunt of every foul bird, a haunt of every foul and having been hated (miseō) beast.