Bible Verses About Malice: General references

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him

(Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; Yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

Commit thyself unto Jehovah; let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he delighteth in him.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Mine enemies speak evil against me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?