No one must say, when he is tempted to do evil, "I have a temptation from God to do evil," for God cannot be tempted to do evil, and He never tempts anyone to do so.

But anyone is tempted to do evil when he is allured by his own evil desire and enticed by a bait.

Then evil desire conceives and gives birth to sin, and when sin is completed, it brings forth death.

do you not make improper distinctions among yourselves and prove to be critics with evil motives?

And the tongue is a fire, and takes its place among the parts of our bodies as a world of evil; it soils the whole body and sets on fire the circle of man's nature, and itself is set on fire by hell.

but the tongue no human being can tame. It is an evil incapable of being quieted, full of deadly poison.

For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and all sorts of evil practices.

You ask and fail to get them, because you ask with evil, selfish motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his evil ways will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a multitude of sins.