42 Bible Verses about evil, believers' responses to

Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.

With many more words he continued to testify and to plead with them to save themselves from that crooked age.

Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

Your ground for boasting about such a case is not good. Are you not aware that a little yeast will change the whole lump of dough? You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed.

A little yeast will transform the whole dough.

Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness? What harmony exists between Christ and Belial, or what is common between a believer and an unbeliever? And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."read more.
Therefore: "'Come out of company with them, and separate from them,' the Lord has said, 'And stop touching what is unclean; then I will welcome you, I will be a Father to you, and you will be sons and daughters of mine,' The Lord Almighty said."

stop giving the devil a chance.

But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;

Now we charge you, brothers, on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to hold yourselves aloof from any brother who is living as a shirker instead of following the teachings you received from us.

He must turn, too, away from evil and do right; He must seek peace and follow it,

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

But He turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my way, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me, for this view of yours is not from God but from men."

But He turned and glanced at His disciples and reproved Peter by saying, "Get out of my way, Satan, for this view of yours is not from God but from men!"

preach the message, stay at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people with perfect patience as a teacher.

for John had said to him, "It is not right for you to have her as wife."

For John kept saying to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

But the other one reproved him and said, "Do you not fear even God when you are suffering the same penalty?

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan so completely possessed your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourselves a part of the money received for the land? As long as it was unsold, was it not yours, and when it was sold, was not the money at your disposal? How could you have the heart to do such a thing! You did not lie to men but to God!"

Peter said to her, "How could both of you agree in such a way to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door; they will carry you out, too."

As I begged you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, I still beg you to stay on in Ephesus to warn certain teachers

Those who are guilty reprove in public, so that others may be warned.

Now this tendency is true. So continue correcting them severely, that they may be healthy in faith,

You must continue teaching this, and continue exhorting and reproving people, with full authority. Let no one belittle you.

Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

So then, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.

but for God to judge those who are outside? You must expel that wicked person from your membership.

Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.

Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

Resist him and be strong in faith, because you know that your brotherhood all over the world is experiencing the same sort of sufferings.

But you must practice loving your enemies, doing good to them, and lending to them, despairing of nothing; so that your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.

Do the opposite. If your enemy is hungry, give him something to eat. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for if you act in this way, you will heap burning coals upon his head! Stop being conquered by evil, but keep on conquering evil with good.

But I tell you, practice loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors,

But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always keep looking for ways to show kindness to one another and everybody.

never returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but blessing instead, because it was for this that you were called, to obtain the blessing of heirs.

And do not let us be subjected to temptation, but save us from the evil one.

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who does us wrong, and do not let us be subjected to temptation.'"

And now, Lord, give attention to their threats and help your slaves with perfect courage to continue to speak your message,

So let us continue coming with courage to the throne of God's unmerited favor to obtain His mercy and to find His spiritual strength to help us when we need it.