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 the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
• Jer 15:21And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
• Ps 145:20The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.
• Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
• Dan 3:28Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Amos 5:15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
• 2 Th 3:2And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
• Ps 31:23O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
• Prov 2:8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
• 1 Jn 5:18We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
• Dan 6:27He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
• 1 Pet 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
• Prov 3:7Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
• Ps 91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
• Jas 2:5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
• Ps 125:3For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
• Isa 45:17But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Ps 37:27–28Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
• Dan 6:22My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
• Rev 13:8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
• 2 Th 2:8–12And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
• 1 Cor 8:3But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
• Ps 119:163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
• Ps 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
• Rom 7:15For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
• Ps 101:3I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
• Rom 8:28–30And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
• 1 Pet 1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• Ps 36:4He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not 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 20:28–30And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
• Rom 7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

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