Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open to their supplication; but the face of the Lord is set against evil-doers."

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

For it is, better, as well-doers, if it should please the pleasure of God, to be suffering, than, as evil-doers:

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;

And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;

Beloved, do not imitate the evil, but the good. He that does good is of God; the evil-doer has not seen God.

I know your life, your toil and endurance, and I know that you cannot tolerate evil-doers. I know, too, how you tested those who declare that they are Apostles, though they are not, and how you proved them false.

Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy."

Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.