"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!"

From within, from the heart of man, proceed evil purposes??22 fornication, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, wantonness, envy, slander, arrogance, reckless folly??23 all these wicked things issue from within and defile a man."

"Do not try to stop him," Jesus answered, "for there is no one who performs a miracle in my name who can soon speak evil of me.

"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

"But you must love even your enemies and be kind to them, And lend, despairing of no man. Then your reward will be great, And you will be the sons of the Most High; For he is kind even to the ungrateful and to the evil.

"The good man out of the good treasure-house of his heart brings forth good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure-house of his heart brings forth evil; for the mouth speaks out of the abundance of the heart.

At that moment Jesus was healing many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he was freely giving their sight.

The twelve were with him, and certain women whom he had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases. Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons have been driven,

When the crowd were beginning to throng about him he proceeded to say. "This is an evil generation! It seeks a sign, and there shall be no sign be given to it except the sign of Jonah;

"The lamp of the body is your eye; when your eye is single then your whole body is full of light; but when it is evil your whole body is full of darkness.

"'depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.

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

"those who have done good into a resurrection of life, and those who have practised evil to a resurrection of condemnation.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

"But, Lord," said Ananias, "I have heard from many about that man, and how much evil he did to the saints at Jerusalem!

But when some grew hardened and disobedient, and spoke evil of the Way before the crowd, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued to hold discussions daily in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

so much so, that handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick; and their diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.

But there were also some strolling Jewish exorcists, who took it upon them to invoke the name of Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches."

But the evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I have heard of, but who are you?"

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

"Brothers, I did not know that he was the high priest," exclaimed Paul, "for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of a ruler of my people."

Anguish and calamity will be upon every soul of man who practices evil, upon the Jew first, and also upon the Gentile;

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

For the good that I intend to do, I do not; but the evil which I do not; but the evil which I do not intend to do, that I am ever practising.

I find, then, this law, that when I intend to do good, evil is ever present with me.

Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.

Do not pay back evil for evil. Aim to do what is honorable in the eyes of all.

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

For rulers are no terror to good deeds, but to evil. Would you be fearless of the ruler's authority? Do what is good, and you will have his praise.

Therefore do not let what is right, so far as you are concerned, be evil spoken of.

I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.

Now this happened as a warning for us, that we might not long for evil things as they longed.

Do not deceive yourselves. Evil companions ruin good morals.

For we must all be made manifest, in our true characters, before the Judgment-seat of Christ; so that each one may receive according to that which he has done in his body, whether good or evil.

amid honor or dishonor, amid evil report and good report; as a deceiver and yet true;

And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age in accordance with the will of our God and Father,

From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

Therefore take up the panoply of God, so that when the evil day comes you may be able to withstand them, and having overthrown them all, to stand your ground.

And take up to cover you the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Evil One.

And you, alienated as you once were, hostile at heart in your evil deeds,

Take care that none of you ever return evil for evil, but always pursue what is kind to one another and to all.

Hold aloof from every form of evil.

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

But the Lord is faithful; he will stablish you and guard you from the Evil One.

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

And the Lord will rescue me from every evil assault, and will preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen!

By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."

Let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that our opponents may be ashamed because they find no evil things to say about us.

And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

they must speak evil of none, they must not be quarrelsome, but gentle, showing perfect meekness toward all.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

But solid food is for adults, that is, for those who by constant practise have their faculties trained to discriminate between good and evil.

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

When he is being tempted, let no one say, "It is God who tempts me," for God cannot be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man.

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

no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison.

For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.

not paying back evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but on the contrary giving a blessing. Because for this you have been called??o inherit a blessing.

He who would love life and enjoy happy days, Let him keep his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking guile;

Let him turn from evil and do good, Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their cry; But the face of the Lord is set against evil-doers.

See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

They are astonished at this, that you do not run into the same excesses of profligacy as they do; and they speak evil of you.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have fully overcome the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have learned to know the father.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

We are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the Evil One, and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? It was because his own deeds were evil, and his brother's, righteous.

We know that whoever is a child of God is not habitually committing sin; but he who is God's child guards himself, and the Evil One never touches him.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is lying in the Evil One.

Do not imitate what is evil, beloved, but that which is good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has never gazed on God.

I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.