Bible Verses About Malice: General references

`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I am Jehovah.

`Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, --and all the people have said, Amen.

`Cursed is he who is causing the blind to err in the way, --and all the people have said, Amen.

For of the vine of Sodom their vine is , And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall--They have bitter clusters;

The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing them, `Do I smite--do I smite--my father?'

And he saith, `Thou dost not smite; those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow art thou smiting? set bread and water before them, and they eat, and drink, and go unto their lord.'

If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin, To ask with an oath his life.

Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

He is bruised--he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip--shake the head,

`Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'

And--in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.

Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.

For they speak not peace, And against the quiet of the land, Deceitful words they devise,

And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, `Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'

Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth--his name hath perished!