How about Matthew 5

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

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Praying for your personal enemies to be regenerated unto God is not optional.

And neither is hating those who bath in Sin and hate God.

These are not mutually exclusive.

Do we think that when Jesus told these people occupied by foreign warlords to love their enemies and go the extra mile when they’re occupiers demand for labor from them as a demonstration was hating them as you say? I believe I get your point in hating the world and hating sin, but I don’t find your framing in how Jesus conducted himself nor his instruction on how others to conduct themselves.