Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts?

Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.

And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.