Love the sinner, hate the phrase.

The phrase so many people like to use to try to mask their self-righteous condemnation of others isn't scriptural at all, it's at best Arminianism. The closest or at least the oldest quote from a Christian (before being abused as it now is) that's anything like it, actually came from St. Augustine.

One of his letters from around 424 AD contains the phrase:
"Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum,"
Which translates roughly as:
"With love for mankind and hatred of sins."

Doesn't have the same false, self-righteous ring to it, does it? Next time you're tempted to use it to justify your own intolerance and biases, think about these verses instead, and maybe just pray for them. God will judge their sins, just as He judges yours.

Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 7:3-5
Why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying, `Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,' when you can't see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log from your own eyes; then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend's eye.

1 John 4:20
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?

Romans 14:10
Who are you to judge another man's servant?

I Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance. Love will last forever ...

God bless and keep you,

James