9 Bible Verses about Vindictiveness

When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, should I kill them? I will kill them.”

Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only bread and water until I come back safely.’”

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.

So Herodias held a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not,

When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. (The slave’s name was Malchus.)

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse: neither to eat nor to drink until they had killed Paul.