"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.

"But let your word be simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the Evil One.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One; For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen.

"If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him?

"Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?

And when he had called his twelve disciples to him, he gave them power over evil spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and infirmity.

"You generation of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. "When the time of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the vine-dressers seized to get his fruit.

"A good man out of his good treasure brings forth good; and from his evil treasure a bad man brings out evil.

In reply Jesus told them. "An evil and faithless generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given them except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

"Whenever any one hears the message of the kingdom, and does not understand it, the Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.

"the field is the world; the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; the weeds, the sons of the Evil One.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

Behold, there came to him a Canaanite woman of those parts. She wailed loudly, saying. "Pity me, Lord, thou Son of David! My daughter is possessed of an evil spirit."

Then Jesus rebuked the evil spirit, and it came out of him; and the boy was cured from that very hour.

"Have I not the right to do what I choose with my own property? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?'

But Pilate said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they kept shouting the more fiercely, "Let him be crucified!"