Blessed are you when they revile you and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake.

Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; anything more than this comes from evil.

But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. But if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.'

If you then, who 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!

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

You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

when anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

the field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil,

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornications, theft, false witness, slander.

And he said, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they kept silent.

For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil thoughts, fornications, theft, murder, adultery,

All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man."

But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for no one who does a miracle in my name can soon afterward speak evil of me.

And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"

But Herod the tetrarch, being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the other evil things Herod had done,

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

But love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For he is kind to the ungrateful and evil.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

At that very hour he cured many of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he gave sight.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had come out,

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

When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus received evil things; but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

and come forth those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

I do not pray that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil one.

But when some were stubborn and disbelieved, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and diseases left them and the evil spirits went out.

But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

But the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you?"

And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered all of them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

And Paul said, "I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'"

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, depravity. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

Why not say as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say "Let us do evil that good may come"? Their condemnation is just.

For I do not do the good I want to do; but the evil I do not want to do is what I do.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

Let love be genuine. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

Repay no one evil for evil, but have regard for what is noble in the sight of all.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

So do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

For your obedience has become known to all, so I am full of joy over you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

Now these things are examples for us, not to desire evil things as they did.

it does not rejoice in evil, but rejoices with the truth.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be infants in evil, but in thinking be mature.

through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors;

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.

in addition to all this, taking up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those mutilators of the body.

And although you were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.

Abstain from every form of evil.

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith.

But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produce envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions,

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable and gentle, and to show true humility toward all men.

Take care, brethren, lest there be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their sense trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself does not tempt anyone.

have you not made distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

And the tongue is a fire, a world of evil among the members of the body. The tongue corrupts our whole person, sets the whole course of our life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a covering for evil; live as servants of God.

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but give a blessing instead; for to this you were called, that you may inherit a blessing.

For, "He who would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

He must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."

I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.

I wrote to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I wrote to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I wrote to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

We know that anyone born of God does not sin; but he who was born of God keeps him, and the evil one does not touch him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping against us with evil words. And not satisfied with that, he refuses himself to welcome the brethren, and also stops those who want to welcome them and puts them out of the church.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.

I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance. I know that you cannot bear evil men, but you have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and have found them to be false;