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I'm curious as to how the following passages fit into your own idea of "love"?

Proverbs 24
24He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous,"
Him the people will curse;
Nations will abhor him.
25But those who rebuke the wicked will have
delight, And a good blessing will come upon them.

Proverbs 27
5Open rebuke is better Than love carefully concealed.

Proverbs 29:15;
The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

2 Timothy 4
1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at[1] His appearing and His kingdom: 2Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

Titus 1
12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." 13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.

Titus 2
14who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
15Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Are those passages to be taken seriously?

****I'm curious as to how the following passages fit into your own idea of "love"?***

God does not love those that do wickedness.

This is often referenced in scripture. But I guess it is disquieting to some to think that God does not love everyone .

GOD HATES ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY” Psalms 5:5

THE BIBLE SAYS GOD HATES SINNERS, NOT JUST THE SIN:

Leviticus 20:23: “And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nations which
I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I
ABHORRED THEM.”

Leviticus 26:14-30: “If ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all
these commandments; And if ye shall despise My statutes, or if your soul
abhor My judgments, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but that ye
break My covenant, I also will do this to you... [send plagues, famine,
drought, destructive armies, wild beasts who shall devour your children,
pestilence, captivity in a cruel land...] And if ye will not for all this
hearken unto Me, but walk contrary to Me; Then I WILL WALK CONTRARY TO YOU
IN FURY... I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and
cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and MY SOUL SHALL
ABHOR YOU.”

Deuteronomy 18:12 “For all that do these things are an ABOMINATION TO THE
LORD, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out
from before thee.”

Deuteronomy 25:16: “...ALL THAT DO UNRIGHTEOUSLY ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE
LORD.”

Deuteronomy 28:62-63: “Because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord
thy God... it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do
you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will the Lord will REJOICE OVER
YOU TO DESTROY YOU, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from
off the land whither thou goest to possess it.” (In Deuteronomy 27, 28, and
29, 124 CURSES are promised upon the Jews who refused to obey God’s
commandments.)

Deuteronomy 32:16-20: “They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods, with
abominations they provoked Him to ANGER... And when the Lord saw it [people
sacrificing to devils - v.17], HE ABHORRED THEM...”

Psalm 2:4-9: “The Lord that sits in the heavens shall LAUGH [at rebellious
men]: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall He speak unto them in
His WRATH, and VEX THEM IN HIS SORE DISPLEASURE... [and Christ shall] break
them with a rod of iron: Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s
vessel.”

Psalm 5:5-6: “The foolish shall not stand in Thy sight: THOU HATEST ALL
WORKERS OF INIQUITY. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing (lies): THE
LORD WILL ABHOR THE BLOODY AND DECEITFUL MAN.”

Psalm 7:11-13: “...God is ANGRY with the wicked every day. If he turn not,
He will whet His sword; He hath bent His bow, and made it ready. He hath
also prepared for him the instruments of death; He ordaineth His arrows
against the persecutors.”

Psalm 10:3: “For the wicked... blesseth the covetous, WHOM THE LORD
ABHORRETH.”

Psalm 11:5-7: “The Lord trieth the righteous: but THE WICKED AND HIM THAT
LOVETH VIOLENCE HIS SOUL HATETH. Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire
and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their
cup. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness...”

Psalm 50:22: “Now consider this, ye that forget God, LEST I TEAR YOU IN
PIECES, AND THERE BE NONE TO DELIVER.”

Psalm 78:59: “When God heard this He was wroth, and GREATLY ABHORRED
ISRAEL.”

Psalm 106:40: “Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against His
people, insomuch that HE ABHORRED HIS OWN INHERITANCE.”

Proverbs 3:32-33: “For the froward is an ABOMINATION TO THE LORD... The
CURSE OF THE LORD is in the house of the wicked: but He blesseth the
habitation of the just.”

Proverbs 6:16-19: “These six things doth THE LORD HATE: yea, seven are AN
ABOMINATION TO HIM... A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth
discord among the brethren.”

Proverbs 16:5: “Every one that is proud in heart is an ABOMINATION TO THE
LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”

Proverbs 17:5: “He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the
just, even they both are ABOMINATION TO THE LORD.”

Proverbs 22:14: “The soul of strange women is a deep pit: HE THAT IS
ABHORRED OF THE LORD shall fall therein.”

Jeremiah 17:5: “Thus saith the Lord, CURSED BE THE MAN that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.”

Hosea 9:15: “All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I HATED THEM: for
the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of Mine house, I WILL
LOVE THEM NO MORE...”

Malachi 1:3-4: “And I HATED ESAU, and laid his mountains and his heritage
waste for the dragons of the wilderness...thus saith the Lord of hosts, They
shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of
wickedness, and the people AGAINST WHOM THE LORD HATH INDIGNATION FOREVER.”

Romans 9:13: “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but ESAU HAVE I HATED.”

I Corinthians 16:22: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
ANATHEMA MARANATHA [which means ACCURSED, THE LORD COMETH].”

James 4:4: “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that friendship of
the world is ENMITY (or HATRED) WITH GOD? whosoever therefore will be a
friend of the world is an ENEMY OF GOD.”

I Peter 3:12: “For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears
are open to their prayers: but THE FACE OF THE LORD IS AGAINST THEM THAT DO
EVIL.”

Revelation 14:10-11: “[Sinners] shall drink of the wine of the WRATH OF GOD,
which is poured without mixture into the cup of HIS INDIGNATION; and he
shall be TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE HOLY
ANGELS, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB; And the smoke of their TORMENT
ascendeth up for ever and ever; and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT...”