0 Does God love everyone?

Does God love everyone?


Yes, God is love and he loves everyone.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4:8

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:16

No, God hates some people.

He hates entire nations sometimes.
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. Leviticus 20:23
He hated Job.
He [God] teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Job 16:9
He hates all workers of iniquity.
Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Psalm 5:5
He hates wicked people and those who love violence.
I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings. Hosea 9:15

To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike. Wisdom 14:9

The wicked ... whom the Lord abhorreth. Psalm 10:3

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Psalm 11:5

He hates false witnesses and busibodies.
These six things doth the LORD hate ... A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Proverbs 6:16, 19
He hates people who don't obey him.
But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments ... my soul shall abhor you. Leviticus 26:14-30
And (for some strange reason) he hates Esau.
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi 1:3

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Romans 9:13


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