CategoryMoral Term / Sin Term
Modern Equivalentill will; the desire to cause harm; deliberate wickedness.
KJV Word TypeNoun
DefinitionA desire or intention to harm another person; ill will and bad feeling toward others. In the NT it is consistently listed among the sins believers are to put away, replacing it with kindness, forgiveness, and love.
Key Verses"Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice." (Ephesians 4:31); "Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies." (1 Peter 2:1)