Malice, Maliciousness, Malicious

Malice, Maliciousness, Malicious

“badness in quality” (the opposite of arete, “excellence”), “the vicious character generally” (Lightfoot), is translated “malice” in 1Co 5:8; 1Co 14:20; Eph 4:31; Col 3:8; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 2:1, AV (RV, “wickedness;” marg., “malice”); “maliciousness” in Rom 1:29; in 1Pe 2:16, AV (RV, “wickedness;” marg., “malice”). Elsewhere, Mat 6:34; Act 8:22; Jam 1:21 (RV marg., “malice”). See EVIL, B, No. 1.

Note: In 2Jo 1:10, AV, poneros, “evil, wicked” (see EVIL, A. No. 2) is translated “malicious” (RV, “wicked”).

Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words