Bible Verses About Malice: A hindrance to growth in grace

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.