"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman so as to have an evil desire for her at once has already committed adultery with her in his heart,

But your way of speaking must be a simple 'Yes' or 'No.' Anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

And do not let us be subjected to temptation, but save us from the evil one.

So never worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Each day has evil enough of its own."

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech.

Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.

but the worries of the times, the deceiving pleasures of being rich, and evil desires for other things, creep in and choke the truth out, and it yields nothing.

for from the inside, that is, from the hearts of men, designs for doing evil come, sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

Then Jesus said to them, "Is it right on the Sabbath to do people good, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?"

Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

At that very hour He cured many people of diseases and scourges and evil spirits, and graciously granted sight to many blind persons.

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had gone,

Now He said to His disciples: "It is inevitable that snares to evil will come, but a curse be on the man through whom they come!

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

and those who have done good will come out for a resurrection to life, but those who have done evil for a resurrection to condemnation.

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

about judgment, because the evil ruler of this world has been condemned.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it.

as an instrument that the people carried off to the sick, towels or aprons used by him, and at their touch they were cured of their diseases, and the evil spirits went out of them.

But some wandering Jews who claimed to be driving out the evil spirits tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus on those who had evil spirits in them, saying, "I command you by that Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

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

So the man in whom the evil spirit was, leaped upon them and so violently overpowered two of them that they ran out of the house stripped of their clothes and wounded.

Paul answered, "I did not know, brothers, that he was high priest, for the Scripture says, 'You must not speak evil against any ruler of your people.'"

So God has given them up to sexual impurity, in the evil trend of their heart's desires, so that they degrade their own bodies with one another,

because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;

they are secret backbiters, open slanderers, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful; inventors of new forms of evil, undutiful to parents,

to every human soul who practices doing evil, the Jew first and then the Greek.

Why should we not say, as people abusively say of us, and charge us with actually saying, "Let us do evil that good may come from it"? Their condemnation is just.

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,

What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

Sin found its rallying point in that command and stirred within me every sort of evil desire, for without law, sin is lifeless.

Indeed, I do not do the good things that I want to do, but I do practice the evil things that I do not want to do.

nor evil forces above or beneath, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God as shown in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Stop returning evil for evil to anyone. Always see to it that your affairs are right in the sight of everybody.

Stop being conquered by evil, but keep on conquering evil with good.

For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not have an evil desire," and any other commandment if there is any, are summed up in this command, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature.

Now all these things occurred as warnings to us, to keep us from hankering after what is evil, in the ways they did.

It does not act with rudeness, or insist upon its rights; it never gets provoked, it never harbors evil thoughts;

Brothers, stop being children in intelligence, but as to evil keep on being babies; and yet as to intelligence be men of maturity.

Do not be so misled: "Evil companionships corrupt good character."

And those who belong to Jesus the Christ have crucified the lower nature with its passions and evil cravings.

and continue to make the most of your opportunities, for the times are evil.

For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

So you must take on God's full armor, so as to be able to take a stand in the day when evil attacks you, and, after having completely finished the contest, to hold your own.

Besides all these, take on the shield which faith provides, for with it you will be able to put out all the fire-tipped arrows shot by the evil one,

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

not out of evil passions as the heathen do who do not know God;

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always keep looking for ways to show kindness to one another and everybody.

Continue to abstain from every sort of evil.

But the Lord is to be trusted, and He will give you strength and guard you from the evil one.

For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.

But God's foundation stands unshaken, with these inscriptions: "The Lord knows the people who belong to Him" and "Everyone who bears the name of the Lord must abstain from evil."

You must keep on fleeing from the evil impulses of youth, but ever strive for uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in association with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,

let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.

But solid food belongs to full-grown men who on account of constant use have their faculties trained to distinguish good and evil.

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

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.

As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,

Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.

and to governors as sent by Him to punish those who do evil and to reward those who do right.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

never returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but blessing instead, because it was for this that you were called, to obtain the blessing of heirs.

For "Whoever wants to enjoy life and see delightful days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

He must turn, too, away from evil and do right; He must seek peace and follow it,

It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.

especially those who satisfy their lower nature by indulging in its evil passions which defile them, and who despise authority. Daring, headstrong men! They do not tremble when they abuse persons of majesty,

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, living in accordance with their evil passions,

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know Him who has existed from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and God's message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.

and the world is passing away and with it the evil longings it incites, but whoever perseveres in doing God's will lives on forever.

We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

We know that no one who is born of God makes a practice of sinning, but the Son who was born of God continues to keep him, and the evil one cannot touch him.

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

These persons are grumblers, ever complaining about their lot. They live to satisfy their evil passions, their lips boast arrogant things, and they flatter others for personal gain.

Let the person who is doing evil do evil still; let the filthy person be filthy still; let the upright person still do right; let the consecrated person still be consecrated.