Psalms 97:10

Those who love the LORD must hate evil, and He guards and rescues His faithful ones. Love for God shapes how we live.

Cross-references · 36

• Prov 8:13To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
• Rom 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
• Jer 15:21I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”
• Ps 145:20The LORD preserves all who love Him, but all the wicked He will destroy.
• Ps 34:14Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
• Dan 3:28Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
• Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
• 2 Th 3:2And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.
• Ps 31:23Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
• Prov 2:8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that anyone born of God does not keep on sinning; the One who was born of God protects him, and the evil one cannot touch him.
• Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues; He performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth, for He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”
• 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Ps 37:39–40The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their stronghold in time of trouble.
• Prov 3:7Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
• Ps 91:14“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• Ps 125:3For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
• Isa 45:17But Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love because He first loved us.
• Ps 37:27–28Turn away from evil and do good, so that you will abide forever.
• Dan 6:22My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, for I was found innocent in His sight, and I have done no wrong against you, O king.”
• Rev 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
• 2 Th 2:8–12And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
• 1 Cor 8:3But the one who loves God is known by God.
• Ps 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.
• Ps 119:104I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
• Rom 7:15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.
• Ps 101:3I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
• Rom 8:28–30And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
• 1 Pet 1:8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
• Ps 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
• 1 Jn 5:2–3By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.
• John 20:28–30Thomas replied, “My Lord and my God!”
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.