Malice, Maliciousness, Malicious <1,,2549, kakia>
"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").
