Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

Let what you say be simply 'yes' or 'no'; whatever exceeds that springs from evil.

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

and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.'

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him?

Jesus saw what they were thinking and said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.

The good man brings good out of his good store, and the evil man brings evil out of his store of evil.

He replied to them, "It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of the prophet Jonah;

Then it goes off to fetch seven other spirits worse than itself; they go in and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it will be with the present evil generation."

When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'

the field is the world; the good seed means the sons of the Realm; the weeds are the sons of the evil one;

So will it be at the end of the world. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the just

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

"It is an evil and disloyal generation that craves a Sign, and no Sign shall be given to it except the Sign of Jonah." Then he left them and went away.

From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,

Jesus said, "Do not stop him; no one who performs any miracle in my name will be ready to speak evil of me.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

The good man produces good from the good stored in his heart, and the evil man evil from his evil: for a man's mouth utters what his heart is full of.

Jesus at that moment was healing many people of diseases and complaints and evil spirits; he also bestowed sight on many blind folk.

and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven),

Well, if for all your evil you know to give your children what is good, how much more will your Father give the holy Spirit from heaven to those who ask him?"

As the crowds were thronging to him, he proceeded to say, "This is an evil generation: it demands a Sign, but no Sign will be given to it except the Sign of Jonah;

there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.

And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;

the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

I pray not that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt keep them from the evil one.

For I see you are a bitter poison and a pack of evil."

people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them.

Some strolling Jewish exorcists also undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

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

And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded.

"Brothers," said Paul, "I did not know he was high priest" (for it is written, You must not speak evil of any ruler of your people).

defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents,

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness ??9 anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well,

Why should we not do evil that good may come out of it?" (which is the calumny attributed to me ??the very thing some people declare I say). Such arguments are rightly condemned.

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone; aim to be above reproach in the eyes of all;

Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

the magistrate is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do wrong, you may well be alarmed; a magistrate does not wield the power of the sword for nothing, he is God's servant for the infliction of divine vengeance upon evil-doers.

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.

Now this took place as a warning for us, to keep us from craving for evil as they craved.

Brothers, do not be children in the sphere of intelligence; in evil be mere infants, but be mature in your intelligence.

amid honour and dishonour, amid evil report and good report, an 'impostor' but honest,

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,

make the very most of your time, for these are evil days.

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.

above all, take faith as your shield, to enable you to quench all the fire-tipped darts flung by the evil one,

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

see that none of you pays back evil for evil, but always aim at what is kind to one another and to all the world;

and abstaining from whatever kind is evil.

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men ??for the faith is not held by all.

However, the Lord is faithful; he will be sure to strengthen you and protect you from the Evil one.

But the solid foundation laid by God remains, and this is its inscription: the Lord knows who are his, and 'let everyone who names the name of the Lord give up evil.'

The Lord will rescue me from every assault of evil, he will bring me safe to his own realm in heaven. To him be glory for ever and ever! Amen.

It has been said by one of themselves, by a prophet of their own, that ??"Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

Whereas solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by exercise to distinguish good and evil.)

Let no one who is tried by temptation say, 'My temptation comes from God'; God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he tempts no one.

for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

never paying back evil for evil, never reviling when you are reviled, but on the contrary blessing. For this is your vocation, to bless and to inherit blessing;

he who would love Life and enjoy good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile:

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight ??spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! ??14 their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

they have gone wrong by leaving the straight road, by following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who liked the profits of evil-doing ??16 but he got reproved for his malpractice: a dumb ass spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's infatuation.

fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father:

fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One.

we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.

We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.

We know that we belong to God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil One.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but good; he who does good belongs to God, he who does evil has never seen God.