Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.
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Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.
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Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
John 3:16 says God so loved the world, and 1 John 4:8 and 4:16 declare God is love. But the Hebrew Bible has YHWH explicitly hating nations, the wicked, the workers of iniquity, false witnesses, the disobedient, and Esau by name — and Romans 9:13 picks up that last one as canonical New Testament theology.
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"Psalms 11:5 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/psalms/11/5?version=WEB (retrieved 27 August 2026).