The Son of Man will send forth his messengers, and they will collect, out of his kingdom, all the causes of stumbling, and the doers of lawlessness,

to prove that you are sons of your Father in heaven, for He makes His sun rise on bad as well as good people, and makes the rain come down on doers of right and of wrong alike.

"And then I will tell them plainly, "'I never knew you: begone from me, you doers of wickedness.'

The good person from his good treasury brings out good [things], and the evil person from his evil treasury brings out evil [things].

Then it goes and brings along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and [they] go in [and] live there. And the last [state] of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be for this evil generation also!"

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good also, or else make the tree evil, and his fruit evil also. For the tree is known by his fruit.

Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

but I say unto you, don't return evil for evil; on the contrary, if any one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other likewise.

Then the chief priest rent his garments, saying, -- 'He hath spoken evil; what need have we yet of witnesses? lo, now ye heard his evil speaking;

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

But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.

And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;

And evening being come, they brought him many possessed with evil spirits: and he east out the spirits by the word, and cured all having evils:

And the rest put violent hands on his servants, and did evil to them, and put them to death.

But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;

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:

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute [you] and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me.

But let your statement be 'Yes, yes; no, no,' and anything beyond these is from the evil one.

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

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

Therefore if you, [although you] are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him?

And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

But he answered [and] said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation desires a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah!

[When] anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand [it], the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path.

Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous