Bible Verses About Malice

For slaughter, for violence to thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off--to the age.

In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou art as one of them!

And--thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.

Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.

For near is the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.

`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;

but I--I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

and whoever is willing to take thee to law, and thy coat to take--suffer to him also the cloak.

`And whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two,

`And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.

His fellow-servant then, having fallen down at his feet, was calling on him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all;

and he would not, but having gone away, he cast him into prison, till he might pay that which was owing.

`And his fellow-servants having seen the things that were done, were grieved exceedingly, and having come, shewed fully to their lord all the things that were done;

then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me,

did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee?

`And having been wroth, his lord delivered him to the inquisitors, till he might pay all that was owing to him;

so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'

And he having said these things, one of the officers standing by did give Jesus a slap, saying, `Thus dost thou answer the chief priest?'

Jesus answered him, `If I spake ill, testify concerning the ill; and if well, why me dost thou smite?'

And day having come, certain of the Jews having made a concourse, did anathematize themselves, saying neither to eat nor to drink till they may kill Paul;

and they were more than forty who made this conspiracy by oath,

who having come near to the chief priests and to the elders said, `With an anathema we did anathematize ourselves--to taste nothing till we have killed Paul;

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,