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27 verses contain “malice” (in the KJV: 15, in the BSB: 17) — showing 1–27
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That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, 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.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.
For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:
A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit, when it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up cometh again.
Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; and the sinful man shall have them both.
Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.
And in them he set a garrison, that they might work malice upon Israel.
Doubtless I will avenge my nation, and the sanctuary, and our wives, and our children: for all the heathen are gathered to destroy us of very malice.
Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,
And so through the covetousness of them that were of power Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitor to the citizens.