Bible Verses About Malice: General references

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but thou shalt plainely rebuke thy neighbour, and suffer him not to sinne.

Thou shalt not auenge, nor be mindful of wrong against ye childre of thy people, but shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe: I am the Lord.

Cursed be he that remoueth his neighbors marke: And all the people shall say: So be it.

Cursed be he that maketh ye blinde go out of the way: And all the people shall say: So be it.

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the vines of Gomorah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters be bitter.

Their wine is the poyson of dragons, and the cruel gall of aspes.

And the King of Israel sayde vnto Elisha when he sawe them, My father, shall I smite them, shall I smite them?

And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: doest thou not smite them that thou hast taken with thy sworde, and with thy bowe? but set bread and water before them, that they may eate and drinke and goe to their master.

If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

Neither haue I suffred my mouth to sinne, by wishing a curse vnto his soule.

Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.

Hee hath made a pitte and digged it, and is fallen into the pit that he made.

His mischiefe shall returne vpon his owne head, and his crueltie shall fall vpon his owne pate.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.

He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.

All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,

He trusted in the Lord, let him deliuer him: let him saue him, seeing he loueth him.

But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.

Let not them that are mine enemies, vniustly reioyce ouer mee, neyther let them winke with the eye, that hate mee without a cause.

For they speake not as friendes: but they imagine deceitfull woordes against the quiet of the lande.

And they gaped on mee with their mouthes, saying, Aha, aha, our eye hath seene.

Mine enemies speake euill of me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?