83 Bible Verses about Evil

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.

Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:

Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.

You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching. But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean. read more.
And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way. And now the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of this town, about which you say, It is given into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword and by need of food and by disease:

But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate; Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me. For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed: read more.
My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit. And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place? For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word. He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things; read more.
So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.

For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.

And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets, Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods, For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning. read more.
And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves; Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day. More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.

For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.

But they will say, There is no hope: we will go on in our designs, and every one of us will do what he is moved by the pride of his evil heart to do.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.

Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.

A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?

The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.

And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

So that bits of linen and clothing from his body were taken to people who were ill, and their diseases went away from them and the evil spirits went out.

Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.

And Jesus gave orders to the unclean spirit, and it went out of him: and the boy was made well from that hour.

For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.

They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.

And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.

But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.

Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.

Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees.

For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man: For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men. Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

Keep from every form of evil.

And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.

For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:

Do not let your foot be without shoes, or your throat dry from need of water: but you said, There is no hope: no, for I have been a lover of strange gods, and after them I will go.

Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.

Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.

And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.

Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.

For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other. Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.

And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets, Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods, For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning. read more.
And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves; Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day. More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book; Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.

These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah; Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.

As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth: When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that. read more.
But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it? I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.

(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.

They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.

He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.

They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

It was these who, moved by Balaam, were the cause of Israel's sin against the Lord in the question of Peor, because of which disease came on the people of the Lord.

And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, they go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

A good man has grace in the eyes of the Lord; but the man of evil designs gets punishment from him.

The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.

But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?

This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil spirits, he sends evil spirits out of men.

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.

And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:

But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it:

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.

He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.

And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.

Have no part with such men;

It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.

For he who gives him words of love has a part in his evil works.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.

Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas.

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;

Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.

And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.

And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.

The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

And when he had come, he went straight to him and said, Master; and gave him a kiss.

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,