Testament of Gad 4

¹Beware, therefore, my children of hatred, for it worketh lawlessness even against the Lord Himself. ²For it will not hear the words of His commandments concerning the loving of one's--neighbour, and it sinneth against God. ³For if a brother stumble, it delighteth immediately to proclaim it to all men, and is urgent that he should be judged for it, and be punished and be put to death. ⁴And if it be a servant it stirreth him up against his master, and with every affliction it deviseth against him, if possibly he can be put to death. ⁵For hatred worketh with envy also against them that prosper: so long as it heareth of or seeth their success it always languisheth. ⁶For as love would quicken even the dead, and would call back them that are condemned to die, so hatred would slay the living, and those that had sinned venially it would not suffer to live. ⁷For the spirit of hatred worketh together with Satan, through hastiness of spirits, in all things to men's death; but the spirit of love worketh together with the law of God in long-suffering unto the salvation of men.