Phil. 3.18. Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ. Phil. 4.1. My brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Col. 1.3. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, 4. Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints. 24. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church. 28. Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

Col. 2.1. I would that ye knew what great conflict I nave for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh. 5. Though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

1 The. 1.3. Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; 4. Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

1 The. 2.7. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 8. Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 11. Ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children.

1 The. 2.17. We, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. 19. What is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? 20. For ye are our glory and joy.

1 The. 3.5. I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain. 7. Brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith: 8. For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9. For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God. 10. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? 12. Abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.

2 The. 1.4. We ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure.

2 Tim. 1.4. Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy.

2 Tim. 2.10. I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Philm. 8. Though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient. 9. Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee,

being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 17. If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. 18. If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account; 19, 1 Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it.

Heb. 6.9. Beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

Heb. 13.22. I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.

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ALITY.

LOYALTY. See SUBJECTS.
LUBIM. See LIBYA.

LUCIFER (day-star), applied to Nebuchadnezzar, Isa. 14.12. It occurs nowhere else. LUCIUS OF CYRENE, a Christian teacher in Antioch, Act. 13.1. Rom. 16.21.

LUD AND LUDIM. See LYDIANS.

LUKE, author of a gospel and The Acts of the Apostles, Luk. 1.1-4. Act. 1.1,2. A phy sician, Col. 4.14. A companion and fellowlabourer of Paul, Act. 16.10. Act. 20.5,6,13-15. Act. 21.1-18. Act. c. 27 & 28. 2 Tim. 4.11.

Philm. 24.

LUKEWARMNESS

AND INDECISION. Gen. 49.4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Jud. 5.16. Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks! For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart. 23. Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty. v. 17.

1 Kin. 18.21. How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.

Psa. 78.8. A generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. 57. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. v. 37.

Psa. 106.12. Then believed they his words; : they sang his praise. 13. They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel.

Pro. 17.24. The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Isa. 43.22. But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. v. 23,24.

Jer. 9.3. They are not valiant for the truth upon the earth.

Jer. 48.10. Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully.

Eze. 13.5. Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of

the Lord.

Eze. 16.30. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things.

Hos. 6.4. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

Hos. 10.2. Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty.

Zeph. 1.5. I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.

Hag. 1.2.

This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built. v. 4-11. Hag. 2.15,16. Mal. 3.8. Ye have robbed me.

Wherein have we robbed thee?

Mat. 6.24. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and

mammon.

Mat. 13.5. Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: 6. And when the sun was up, they❘ were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

Mat. 26.41. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Luk. 9.62. No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Luk. 17.32. Remember Lot's wife. 33. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it. Jno. 5.35. Ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

Act. 26.28. Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

Gal. 1.6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.

Eph. 4.14. Be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive. Heb. 13.9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace.

Jas. 1.6. He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. 8. A double-minded man is unstable in all

his ways.

Jas, 4.17. To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Rev. 2.4. I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Rev. 3.2. Strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. LUKEWARMNESS AND INDECISION, EXAMPLES OF Solomon, 1 Kin. 3.3. Israelites, Ex. 32 with Ex. 24.7. 1 Kin. 22.43. 2 Kin. 12.3. 2 Chr. 20.33. 2 Chr. 33.17. Asa, 1 Kin. 15.14. Jehoram, 2 Kin. 3.2,3. Naaman, 2 Kin. 5.17,18. Jehu, 2 Kin. 10.16-31. maritans, 2 Kin. 17.41. Levites, 2 Chr. 24.5. Amaziah and Joash, 2 Kin. 14.3,4. 2 Chr. 25.2. Jews, Neh. 3.5. Neh. 13.11. Christ's hearers, Jno. 6.66. Jno. 12.42. Mark, Act. 15.38. Felix, Act. 24.25.

Sa

See DOUBT, WATCHFULNESS, WORLDLINESS, BACKSLIDING.

LUNACY. See MADNESS.
LUZ. See BETHEL.

LYBIA. See LIBYA.

LYDIA of Thyatira, her conversion; baptism of herself and household at Philippi; entertainment of Paul, Act. 16.14,15,40.

a province in the west of Asia Minor (not named in Scripture), peopled (it is supposed) by descendants of Lud, Gen. 10.22. Towns of, see PHILADELPHIA, SARDIS, THYATIRA.

LYDIANS, or LUDIM, a people of Africa, sprung from Ludim, Gen. 10.13. Fought with bows and arrows, Isa. 66.19. Jer. 46.9. Eze. 27.10. Eze. 30.5.

LYSANIAS, tetrarch of Abilene, Luk. 3.1. LYSIAS. See CLAUDIUS LYSIAS.

LYSTRA, a city of Lycaonia, to which Paul and Barnabas fled from Iconium; Paul heals a cripple at the people offer divine honours to him and Barnabas; persecution at, Act. 14.6-19. 2 Tim. 3.11. Church at, revisited by Paul, Act. 14.21-23. Act. 16.1,2.

a district of Syria inhabited by a remnant of Canaanites, Jos. 13.11,13. Deu. 3.14. Jos. 12.5. King of, assists the Ammonites against David, 2 Sam. 10.6,8. 1 Chr. 19.6,7.

MACEDONIA, a province of Greece; Paul's vision respecting, Act. 16.9-12; and visits to, Act. 16.9-12. Act. 20.1,3. 2 Cor. 2.13. 2 Cor. 7.5. 1 Tim. 1.3. See also towns of AMPHIPOLIS, APOLLONIA, BEREA, NEAPOLIS, PHILIPPI, THESSALONICA. Paul's purpose to visit, Act. 19.21. 1 Cor. 16.5. 2 Cor. 1.16. Churches in, 2 Cor. 9.2,4. 1 The. 17. 1 The. 4.10. Liberality of, to the saints of Jerusalem, Rom. 15.26. 2 Cor. 8.1-5; and to Paul, 2 Cor. 11.9. Timothy and Erastus sent to, by Paul, Act. 19.22. Gaius and Aristarchus, men of, Act. 19.29. Act. 27.2. Prophecies of, see GREECE.

MACHIR, son of Manasseh, Gen. 50.23. Father of Gilead, Num. 26.29. Num. 36.1. Jud. 5.14. Gilead and Bashan, given to, Num. 32.39,40. Deu. 3.15. Jos. 13.31. Jos. 17.1. MACHPELAH, a cave near Hebron, bought by Abraham from Ephron the Hittite, the

burial-place of Sarah and Abraham, Gen. 23. Gen. 25.9. Of Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah, Gen. 49.31. Of Jacob, Gen. 50.13; but see Act. 7.16. MADAI, son of Japheth, Gen. 10.2. 1 Chr. 1.5; everywhere else translated Medes. PERSIA.

See

MADNESS, Deu. 28.28. Pro. 26.18. Zec. 12.4. Feigned by David, 1 Sam. 21.15. Cured by Christ, Mat. 4.24. Mat. 17.15. Christ charged with, Jno. 10.20; and Paul, Act. 26.24. MAGDALA, a town near the sea of Galilee, visited by Christ, Mat. 15.39.

MAGI, translated WISE MEN, guided by a star to Jerusalem; interview with Herod; guided by a star to Jesus; worship him; present gifts; warned in a dream to return home by a new way, Mat. 2.1-12.

MAGICIANS, counsellors of kings, Gen. 41.8,24. Ex. 7.11,22. Dan. 1.20. Dan 2.10,27.

Dan. 4.7. Dan. 5.11. See SORCERY.

MAGISTRATES. See RULERS JUSTICE,

ADMINISTRATION OF.

MAHANEH-DAN (camp of Dan), Jud. 18.12. Jud. 13.25.

MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ, son of Isaiah, prophecy respecting, Isa. 8.1-4.

MAHLON, son of Elimelech and Naomi, and husband of Ruth, Ruth 1.2. Ruth 4.10. MAIL, COAT OF, worn by Goliath, 1 Sam. 17.5. See BREASTPLATE.

MAKKEDAH, a royal city of the Canaanites, taken by Joshua, Jos. 10.28. Jos. 12.16. Given to Judah, Jos. 15.41.

cave of, 5 Canaanitish kings take refuge in, and are slain by Joshua, Jos. 10. 10,16-27.

MAKTESH, supposed to be a part of Jerusalem, occupied by merchants, Zeph. 1.11. MALACHI, the last of the Old Testament prophets, Mal. 1.1.

MALCHAM OR MOLOCH, a god worshipped by the Jews, Zeph. 1.5. See MOLOCH.

MALCHUS, servant of Caiaphas; his ear cut off by Peter; cured by Christ, Jno. 18.10. Mat. 26.51. Mar. 14.47. Luk. 22.50,51. MALEFACTORS, two crucified with Christ, Luk. 23.32-39. Mat. 27.38,44.

MALICE, HATRED, REVENGE, CRUELTY. Lev. 19.14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin

upon him.

18. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbour as Deu. 27.18. thyself.

Deu. 32.33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Job 5.12. He disappointed the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. v. 13.

Job 24.2. Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. 4. They turn the needy out of the way. v. 5.

Job 31.29. If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him: 30. Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. 2 Kin. 6.21,22.

Psa. 4.2. O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame?

Psa. 7.14. He travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. 16. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. Job 15.35.

Psa. 10.7. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. 9. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. 14. Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand. v. 2-15.

Psa. 21.11. They intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Psa. 22.7. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, 8. He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Psa. 35.15. In mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: 16. With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 20. They speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. 21. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psa. 38.16.

When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. 19. Mine enemies are lively, and they are strong and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

Psa. 41.5. Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6. And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he 7. All that hate goeth abroad, he telleth it. me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. v. 8.

Psa. 55.10. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Psa. 56.5. Every day they wrest my words: and their thoughts are against me for evil. 6. They gather themselves together, they hide

themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Psa. 57.4. My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 6. They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves.

Psa. 59.3. Lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my_transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord. 4. They run and prepare themselves without my fault. v. 6,7.

Psa. 62.3. How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. Psa. 64.3. Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: 4. That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. 5. They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? 6. They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep. Psa. 140.2,3,5.

Psa. 69.4. They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty. 10. When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. 11. I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them. 12. They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. 26. They persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

Psa. 70.2. Let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. 3. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

Psa. 71.10. Mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, 11. Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. v. 13,24.

Psa. 74.20. The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Psa. 86.14. O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Psa. 102.8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

Psa. 109.17. As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18. As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. v. 16-25.

Psa. 119.150. They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

v. 78.

Pro. 4.16. They sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. 17. For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Pro. 6.14. Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. 15. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. 18. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief. v. 16.

Pro. 10.11. Violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 12. Hatred stirreth up strifes. Pro. 11.17. He that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. Pro. 12.10. wicked are cruel.

The tender mercies of the

Pro. 14.17. A man of wicked devices is hated. 22. Do they not err that devise evil? Pro. 15.17. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Pro. 16.30. He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass. Pro. 17.5. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.

Pro. 20.22. Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

Pro. 21.10. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his

eyes.

Pro. 24.8. He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. 17. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: 18. Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him. 29. Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

Pro. 26.2. As the bird by wandering, so the curse causeless shall not come. 27. Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Pro. 28.10. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit.

Pro. 30.14. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Isa. 29.20. All that watch for iniquity are cut off: 21. That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Isa. 32.6. The vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. 7. He deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

Isa. 59.5. They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6. Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. v. 7.

Jer. 20.10. I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be

enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and | we shall take our revenge on him.

Lam. 4.3. Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

Eze. 18.18. Because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

Eze. 25.3. Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned. 6. Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; 7. Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen.

Eze. 25.15. Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred. 17. I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes.

Eze. 26.2. Because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: 3. Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus. Amos 1.11. I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

Mic. 2.1. Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Zec. 8.17. Let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; for all these are things that I hate. Zec. 7.10.

Mat. 5.38. Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39. But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. v. 40,41. Luk. 6.29.

Mat. 6.15. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Mat. 18.33. Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee? 34. And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.

Mat. 26 52. Put up again thy sword into his place for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Jno. 8.44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning.

Jno. 18.23. If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou me?

Rom. 12.19. Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

1 Cor. 14.20. In malice be ye children. Gal. 5.19. The works of the flesh are maniest. 20. Hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,

21. Envyings, of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Eph. 4.31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.

Phil. 1.15. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 16. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds.

Col. 3.8. Put off all these; anger, wrath, malice.

1 The. 5.15. See that none render evil for evil unto any man.

Tit. 3.3. We ourselves also were sometimes living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Jas. 2.13. He shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy. 1 Pet. 2.1.

Laying aside all malice, and all

guile. 1 Pet. 3.9. Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing.

1 Jno. 2.9. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 11. He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

1 Jno. 3.10. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 14. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

1 Jno. 4.20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not-his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

3 Jno. 10. His deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

MALICE, HATRED, REVENGE, CRUELTY, EXAMPLES OF: Ishmael, Gen. 21.9. Sarah, Gen. 21.10. Esau, Gen. 27.41. Joseph's brethren, Gen. 37. Gen. 42.21. Potiphar's wife, Gen. 39.14-20. Ammonites, Deu. 23.1-5. Adonibezek, Jud. 1.7. Samson, Jud. 15.3-11. Philistines, Jud. 16.21. Saul, 1 Sam. 18. 1 Sam. 19. 1 Sam. 20.30-33. 1 Sam. 22.6-18. 1 Sam. 23.7-23. 1 Sam. 24.14-17. 1Sam. 26.18. David, 1 Sam. 25.21-34. Shimei, 2 Sam. 16.5-8. Ahithophel, 2 Sam. 17.1-3. Jezebel, 1 Kin. 19.1,2. Ahaziah, 2 Kin. 1. Jehoram, 2 Kin. 6.31. Samaritans, &c., Ezr. 4. Neh. 2.10. Neh. 4. Neh. 6. Haman, Est. 3.5-15. Est. 5.9-14. Jeremiah's enemies, Jer. 26.8-11. Jer. 38. Nebuchadnezzar, Jer. 52.11. Daniel's enemies, Dan. 6.4-9. Edomites, Obad. 10-16. Herodias, Mar. 6.24-28. Herod, Luk. 23.11. James & John, Luk. 9.54. Peter, Jno. 18.10. Jews, Act. 23.12. Act. 25.3. Soldiers, Act. 27.42.

See PHARISEES-CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS— PERSECUTION-MURDER-POOR, OPPRESSION OF HYPOCRISY AND TREACHERYSPEAKING EVIL-STRIFE-ANGER-FORGIVENESS-LOVE.