Malice

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 . - 1Co 5:8

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. - 1Co 14:20

Understanding

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice : - Eph 4:31

We must wilfully and purposely determine that we will not allow Bitterness, Wrath, Malice , emotional outbursts and Evil speaking to abide in us and proceed from us.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice , blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth . - Col 3:8

We must willfully and purposefully put of all these Works of Flesh which bring Judgment .

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. - Tit 3:3

We ought all to manifest the New Spirit rather than the Old Man

Wherefore laying aside all malice , and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, - 1Pe 2:1

These things are still in our Soul even after we are Born Again . They must be laid aside by willfully and purposefully allowing the Word to Transform our Minds .