And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I have found you: because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.

For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.

But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

He that hates me hates my Father also.

If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do you.

Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them who showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom you have been now the betrayers and murderers:

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath came upon you from the LORD.

In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Who knowing the judgment of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

What do you mean that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.

You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you feed not the flock.

Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave not a bone till the morning.

Thus says the LORD my God; Feed the flock for the slaughter;

Whose owners slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.