Bible Verses About Malice: General references

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Seek not revenge, nor be mindful of the injury of thy citizens. Thou shalt love thy friend as thyself. I am the Lord.

Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of his way: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

And the king of Israel said to Eliseus, when he saw them: My father, shall I kill them?

And he said: Thou shalt not kill them: for thou didst not take them with thy sword, or thy bow, that thou mayst kill them: but set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

If I have been glad at the downfall of him that hated me, and have rejoiced that evil had found him.

For I have not been given my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul.

And in it he hath prepared to instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.

He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made.

He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup.

For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

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

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

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

With hypocritical 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 matters against them that are quiet in the land.

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

These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.