Topic
Malice, Malignity
16 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Esther 13:4ISBE
Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to all nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by…
- Esther 13:7ISBE
That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.
- Wisdom of Solomon 1:4ISBE
For into a malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject unto sin.
- Wisdom of Solomon 12:10ISBE
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.
- Wisdom of Solomon 12:20ISBE
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:
- Wisdom of Solomon 16:14ISBE
A man indeed killeth through his malice: and the spirit, when it is gone forth, returneth not; neither the soul received up cometh again.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 27:30ISBE
Malice and wrath, even these are abominations; and the sinful man shall have them both.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 28:7ISBE
Remember the commandments, and bear no malice to thy neighbour: remember the covenant of the Highest, and wink at ignorance.
- 2 Maccabees 4:50ISBE
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.
- 2 Maccabees 5:23ISBE
And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.
- 2 Maccabees 14:11ISBE
This was no sooner spoken of him, but others of the king’s friends, being maliciously set against Judas, did more incense Demetrius.
- John 1:10ISBE
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
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- Romans 1:29 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 5:8 ISBE
- 1 Corinthians 14:20 ISBE
- Colossians 3:8 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 18 references
mal'-is, ma-lig'-ni-ti (kakia, poneros, kakoetheia): "Malice," now used in the sense of deliberate ill-will, by its derivation means badness, or wickedness generally, and was so used in Older English. In the Apocrypha it is the translation of kakia, "evil," "badness" (The Wisdom of Solomon 12:10,20; 16:14; 2 Macc 4:50, the Revised Version (British and American) "wickedness"); in Ecclesiasticus 27:30; 28:7, we have "malice" in the more restricted sense as the translation of menis, "confirmed anger." In the New Testament "malice" and "maliciousness" are the translation of kakia (Ro 1:29; 1Co 5:8; 14:20; Col 3:8); malicious is the translation of poneros, "evil" (3 Joh 1:10, the Revised Version (British and American) "wicked"); it also occurs in Additions to Esther 13:4,7, verse 4, "malignant"; The Wisdom of Solomon 1:4, the Revised Version (British and American) that deviseth evil"; 2 Macc 5:23; malignity occurs in Ro 1:29 as the translation of kakoetheia, "evil disposition"; "maliciously," Susanna verses 43,62; 2 Macc 14:11, the Revised Version (British and American) "having ill will."
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.