Bible Verses About Malice: General references

You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”

“Do not kill them,” he replied. “Would you kill those you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them, that they may eat and drink and then return to their master.”

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—

Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.

He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”