30 Bible Verses about Knowledge Of Good And Evil

And Jehovah God will say, Lo, Adam became as one from us, to know good and evil: and now lest he shall send forth his hand and take also of the tree of lives, and eat, and live to eternity:

And Jehovah God will cause to grow out of the earth every tree pleasant to the sight, and good for food; and the tree of lives in the midst of the garden, and the tree to know good and evil.

For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat

And thy servant will say, Now will the word of my lord the king be for a sacrifice, for as a messenger of God, so my lord the king to hear the good and the evil: and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.

The son of eighty years am I this day; shall I know between good to evil? if thy servant shall taste what I shall eat, and what I shall drink? if I shall yet hear to the voice of men singing or of women singing? and wherefore shall thy servant be yet for a burden to my lord the king?

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God. Behold thee wise above Daniel; not any thing hidden was hidden to thee: With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou madest to thee wealth, and thou wilt make gold and silver in thy treasures.read more.
By the multitude of thy wisdom, by thy traffic thou didst multiply thy wealth, and thine heart will be lifted up in thy wealth. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy giving thy heart as the heart of God; For this, behold me bringing strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they emptied out their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they profaned thy splendor.

But from the tree to know good and evil thou shalt not eat from it, for in the day of thy eating from it, dying, thou shalt die.

And the eyes of the two shall be opened, and they shall know that they are naked; and they shall sew together the leaves of the fig tree, and shall make to themselves girdles. And they shall hear the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden at the breeze of the day: and Adam and his wife will hide from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the wood of the garden. And Jehovah God will call to the man, and will say to him, Where art thou?read more.
And he will will say, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I shall be afraid, because I am naked, and I will hide myself. And he will say, Who showed to thee that thou art naked? Of the tree which I charged thee not to eat, didst thou eat from it? And the man will say, The woman which thou gavest with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I shall eat And Jehovah God will say to the woman, What is this thou didst? And the woman will say, The serpent deceived me and I shall eat. And Jehovah God will say to the serpent, Because thou didst this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust thou shalt eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and between the woman, and between thy seed and between her seed; it shall lie in wait for thee as to the head, and thou shalt lie in wait for him as to the heel. To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee. And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; And thorns and weeds shall it cause to sprout forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the green herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat food until thy turning back to the earth; for out of it thou wert taken; for dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou turn back.

Thou wert in Eden the garden of God: every precious stone thy covering, the ruby, the topaz, the onyx, the chrysolite, the sardonyx and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle and the emerald, and gold: the work of thy drums and thy pipes were prepared in thee in the day of thy being created. Thou the cherub of expansion covering; and I gave thee: thou wert in the holy mountain of God; thou walkedst about in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou shalt be perfected in thy ways from the day of thy being created even till iniquity was found in thee.read more.
In the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou wilt sin: and I shall profane thee from the mountain of God, and destroying thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up with thy beauty, thou didst corrupt thy wisdom on account of thy splendor: I cast thee upon the earth, I gave thee before kings to look upon thee. From the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic, thou didst profane my holy places; and I will bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall consume thee, and I will give thee for ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all seeing thee. All knowing thee among the peoples were astonished at thee: thou wert terrors; and thou not, even to forever.

And as they chose not to have God in knowledge, God delivered them to an adulterated purpose, to do things not fitting; Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity, Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,read more.
Destitute of understanding, unsteady, devoid of natural affection, implacable, merciless: Who knowing the justice of God, that they doing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also approve those doing.

Teach me good taste and knowledge, for I believed in thy commands.

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Come, ye sons, hear to me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah. Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good? Watch thy tongue from evil; and thy lips from speaking deceitread more.
Turn away from evil, and do good; seek peace and pursue it

The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah: a good understanding to all doing them: his praise stands forever.

What then shall we say? The law sin? It may not be. But I knew not sin except by the law: for I knew not lust, if the law said not, Thou shalt not eagerly desire.

For when nations, not having the things of the law, by nature do the things of the law, these, not having the law, are law to themselves: Which show the work of the law Written in their hearts, their consciousness testifying together, and between one another thoughts accusing or also excusing;)

My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.

And ye remembered your evil ways and your doings which not being good, and ye loathed with your faces for your iniquities and for your abominations.

For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.

And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.

I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit,

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

(And the end of the proclamation is love out of a pure heart, and a good consciousness, and unfeigned faith:

And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear: Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.

And it was that Jehovah will do to my lord according to all the good which he spake concerning thee, and he commanded thee for leader over Israel; And this shall not be to thee for an obstacle and for a stumbling-block of heart to my lord, and to pour out blood gratuitously, and for my lord saving for himself: and the doing good of Jehovah to my lord, and remember thy servant And David will say to Abigail, Blessed Jehovah the God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me.read more.
And blessed thy discernment, and blessed thou who finished me this day from coming for bloods, and my hand saving for me. But yet Jehovah the God of Israel lives who withheld me from doing thee evil, for unless thou hastenedst and came to meet me, for if there was left to Nabal by the light of the morning him pissing against the wall.

And Levi and Benjamin he reviewed not in the midst of them: for the king's word was abhorred with Joab. And it will be evil in the eyes of God concerning this word, and he will strike Israel

Depart from evil and do good, and dwell forever.

Seek good and not evil, so that ye shall live: and so Jehovah God of armies shall be with you as ye said. Hate evil and love good, and set ye judgment in the gate: perhaps Jehovah God of armies will compassionate the remnant of Joseph.

Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger: Neither give place to the accuser.read more.
He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need. Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing. And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption. Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good. And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me.read more.
For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me. I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.