Bible Verses About Malice

For the violence done to your kinsman Ya'akov, shame will cover you; and you will be forever cut off.

On that day you stood aside, while strangers carried off his treasure, and foreigners entered his gates to cast lots for Yerushalayim - you were no different from them.

You shouldn't have gloated over your kinsman on their day of disaster or rejoiced over the people of Y'hudah on their day of destruction. You shouldn't have spoken arrogantly on a day of trouble

or entered the gate of my people on their day of calamity - no, you shouldn't have gloated over their suffering on their day of calamity or laid hands on their treasure on their day of calamity.

You shouldn't have stood at the crossroads to cut down their fugitives or handed over their survivors on a day of trouble."

For the Day of ADONAI is near for all nations; as you did, it will be done to you; your dealings will come back on your own head.

"You have heard that our fathers were told, `Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.'

But I tell you not to stand up against someone who does you wrong. On the contrary, if someone hits you on the right cheek, let him hit you on the left cheek too!

If someone wants to sue you for your shirt, let him have your coat as well!

And if a soldier forces you to carry his pack for one mile, carry it for two!

"But as that servant was leaving, he came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him some tiny sum. He grabbed him and began to choke him, crying, `Pay back what you owe me!'

His fellow servant fell before him and begged, `Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'

But he refused; instead, he had him thrown in jail until he should repay the debt.

When the other servants saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed; and they went and told their master every thing that had taken place.

Then the master summoned his servant and said, `You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt just because you begged me to do it.

Shouldn't you have had pity on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?'

And in anger his master turned him over to the jailers for punishment until he paid back everything he owed.

This is how my heavenly Father will treat you, unless you each forgive your brother from your hearts."

At these words, one of the guards standing by slapped Yeshua in the face and said, “This is how you talk to the cohen hagadol?”

Yeshua answered him, “If I said something wrong, state publicly what was wrong; but if I was right, why are you hitting me?”

The next day, some of the Judeans formed a conspiracy. They took an oath, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Sha’ul;

more than forty were involved in this plot.

They went to the head cohanim and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food until we have killed Sha’ul.

They are filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and vice; stuffed with jealousy, murder, quarrelling, dishonesty and ill-will; they are gossips,

slanderers, haters of God; they are insolent, arrogant and boastful; they plan evil schemes; they disobey their parents;