'Evil' in the Bible

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.

But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His 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 evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!

And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, “Why are you thinking evil in your hearts?

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil.

But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

and the field is the world; and as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away.

Those slaves went out into the streets and gathered together all they found, both evil and good; and the wedding hall was filled with dinner guests.

But if that evil slave says in his heart, ‘My master is not coming for a long time,’

And he said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they kept shouting all the more, saying, “Crucify Him!”