Bible Verses About Malice
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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.
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Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
2Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
16These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.