'Malice' in the Bible
But the wicked one travails with evil, he conceives malice and gives birth to lies.
Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth;trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Do not drag me away with the wicked,with the evildoers,who speak in friendly ways with their neighborswhile malice is in their hearts.
As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"
Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.
If I had been aware of malice in my heart,the Lord would not have listened.
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
He who [maliciously] winks the eye [of evil intent] causes trouble;And the babbling fool [who is arrogant and thinks himself wise] will come to ruin.
Though malice disguises itself with deception, its evil will be exposed publicly.
For a voice announces from Dan,proclaiming malice from Mount Ephraim.
You see all their malice,all their plots against me.
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you've applauded, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with all sorts of malice in your heart against the land of Israel,
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because Philistia has made it their practice to carry out retribution, accompanied by extraordinary malice in their personal vendettas vendettas that spring from their everlasting hostility
""Because this is what the Lord GOD says: "Motivated by my burning zealousness, I have spoken against the rest of the surrounding nations, including Edom, who confiscated my land, taking possession of it with joyful enthusiasm and with animal-like malice, in order to plunder Israel's pastures.'
But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, ‘Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!’ shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fiery hell.
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
But perceiving their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing Me, hypocrites?
But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and plate [as required by tradition]; but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.