42 Bible Verses about evil, believers' responses to

and abstaining from whatever kind is evil.

And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!"

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

No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump? Clean out the old dough that you may be a fresh lump. For you are free from the old leaven; Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed.

(A morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump.)

[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and Beliar, or what business has a believer with an unbeliever? What compact can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God ??as God has said, I will dwell and move among them, I will be their God and they shall be my people.read more.
Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you, I will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord almighty.

give the devil no chance.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

let him shun wrong and do right, let him seek peace and make peace his aim.

for anyone whose practices are corrupt loathes the light and will not come out into it, in case his actions are exposed,

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, you Satan! You are a hindrance to me! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

but he turned on him and noticing his disciples reproved Peter, telling him, "Get behind me, you Satan! Your outlook is not God's but man's."

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

since John had told him, "You have no right to her."

John had told Herod, "You have no right to your brother's wife."

But the other checked him, saying, "Have you no fear even of God? You are suffering the same punishment as he.

"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land? When it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And even after the sale, was the money not yours to do as you pleased about it? How could you think of doing a thing like this? You have not defrauded men but God."

Peter said to her, "How could you arrange to put the Lord's Spirit to the proof? Listen, there are the footsteps of the men who have buried your husband! They are at the door, and they will carry you out as well."

As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties

Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.

That is a true statement. So deal sharply with them, to have them sound in the faith

Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

Well then, submit yourselves to God; resist the devil, and he will fly from you:

as for outsiders, God will judge them. Expel the wicked from your company.

Have nothing to do with the fruitless enterprises of the darkness; rather expose them.

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.

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.

if your enemy is hungry, feed him, if he is thirsty, give him drink; for in this way you will make him feel a burning sense of shame. Do not let evil get the better of you; get the better of evil by doing good.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you:

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;

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;

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

and forgive us our sins for we do forgive everyone who has offended us; and lead us not into temptation."

So now, O Lord, consider the threats of these men, and grant that thy servants may be perfectly fearless in speaking thy word,

So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.