'Evil' in the Bible

"Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.

Let your word be 'Yes, yes' or 'No, no.' More than this is from the evil one.

so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

When Jesus saw their reaction he said, "Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!"

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Then his lord called the first slave and said to him, 'Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

They said to him, "He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest."

But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said, "Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?

But if that evil slave should say to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,'

But his master answered, 'Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn't sow and gather where I didn't scatter?

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?" But they were silent.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of Herodias, his brother's wife, and because of all the evil deeds that he had done,

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?"

"Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to ungrateful and evil people.

The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

At that very time Jesus cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, and evil spirits, and granted sight to many who were blind.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and disabilities: Mary (called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out,

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first."

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

so that when even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body were brought to the sick, their diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.

But some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were possessed by evil spirits, saying, "I sternly warn you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

But the evil spirit replied to them, "I know about Jesus and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?"

Then the man who was possessed by the evil spirit jumped on them and beat them all into submission. He prevailed against them so that they fled from that house naked and wounded.

Paul replied, "I did not realize, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, 'You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.'"

When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,

And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"? -- as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil; consider what is good before all people.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,

You must put away every kind of bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and evil, slanderous talk.

taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

For this reason, take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

and in all of this, by taking up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!

And you were at one time strangers and enemies in your minds as expressed through your evil deeds,

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

Stay away from every form of evil.

and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

However, God's solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

The Lord will deliver me from every evil deed and will bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

So put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.

If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?

But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.

For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.