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 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Jer 15:21“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”
• Ps 145:20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
• Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
• Dan 3:28Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
• 2 Th 3:2and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.
• Ps 31:23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
• Prov 2:8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.
• Dan 6:27He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
• Prov 3:7Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
• Ps 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Ps 125:3For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.
• Isa 45:17Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Ps 37:27–28Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.
• Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
• Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
• 2 Th 2:8–12Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
• 1 Cor 8:3But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
• Ps 119:163I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.
• Ps 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
• Rom 7:15For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
• Ps 101:3I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
• Rom 8:28–30We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
• Ps 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor 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 answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
• Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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