The one who hates others disguises ¹  it with his lips, but he stores up ²  deceit within him. ³ 

Though his ¹  hatred may be concealed ²  by deceit, his evil will be uncovered ³  in the assembly.

The one who stiffens his neck ¹  after numerous rebukes ²  will suddenly be destroyed ³  without remedy. ⁴ 

But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds ¹  among the wheat and went away.

So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But ¹  she could not

Now this happened ¹  to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ ² 

As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ¹ 

In my zeal for God I persecuted the church. According to the righteousness stipulated in the law I was blameless.

The one who says he is in the light but still hates ¹  his fellow Christian ²  is still in the darkness.

God said to Solomon, “Because you desire this, ¹  and did not ask for riches, wealth, and honor, or for vengeance on your enemies, ²  and because you did not ask for long life, ³  but requested wisdom and discernment so you can make judicial decisions for my people over whom I have made you king,

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep ¹  all my commandments and you break my covenant –

So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, ¹  “He is really hated ²  among his own people in ³  Israel! From now on ⁴  he will be my servant.”

But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

“I ¹  am weary ²  of my life; I will complain without restraint; ³  I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

His ¹  anger has torn me ²  and persecuted ³  me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks ⁴  his eyes on me.

Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, ¹  for they say, ²  “Who hears?”

Reach down ¹  from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, ²  from the power of foreigners, ³ 

So I loathed all the fruit of ¹  my effort, ²  for which I worked so hard ³  on earth, ⁴  because ⁵  I must leave it ⁶  behind ⁷  in the hands of my successor. ⁸ 

“This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The Philistines ¹  have exacted merciless revenge, ²  showing intense scorn ³  in their effort to destroy Judah ⁴  with unrelenting hostility. ⁵ 

“I will not overlook, ¹  O sinful house, the dishonest gain you have hoarded away, ²  or the smaller-than-standard measure I hate so much. ³