30 Bible Verses about Opposition, To Sin And Evil
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And Jesus came into the temple of God, and cast out all the buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money-exchangers, and the seats of those selling the doves; and He says to them, It has been written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but you make it a den of thieves.
And they come into Jerusalem: and He having come into the temple, began to cast out the buyers and sellers in the temple, and He overturned the tables of the money-exchangers, and the seats of those selling doves; and He did not suffer that any one should carry a vessel through the temple.
And having come into the temple, He began to cast out those buying and selling, saying to them; It has been written, My house shall be a house of prayer: but you have made it a den of thieves.
And He found in the temple those selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting: and having made a scourge of cords, He cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the money of the exchangers, and over-turned the tables. And He said to those selling doves; Take these things hence, make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.read more.
And His disciples remembered that it is written, The zeal of thy house doth eat me up.
and he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
Likewise, you younger men, submit to the elders: and all put on humility toward one another; because God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
Repent; otherwise I am coming to you quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not that thy whole body may go away into hell. OMITTED TEXT
For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live.
And when Cephas came into Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to blame.
For why is it for me to judge the outsiders? Do you not judge those within? But God will judge those without. Take away the wicked person from you, yourselves.
But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father. And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?
But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who says herself to be a prophet, and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication, and to cat things sacrificed to idols.
And behold, one of those along with Jesus, reaching out his hand, drew his sword, and smiting the servant of the high priest, cut off his ear. Then Jesus says to him, Turn away thy sword into its place; for all taking the sword shall perish by the sword.
And a certain one of those standing by drew his sword, and smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And Jesus responding said, Hold on until this: and touching his ear, healed him.
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name to that servant was Malchus. Then Jesus said to Peter, Put thy sword in the scabbard: the cup which the Father gave me, shall I not drink it?
And the disciples James and John, seeing, said, Lord, do you wish that we may command fire to descend from heaven and consume them? And He turning, rebuked them.
And certain ones of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to call the name of the Lord Jesus, over those having evil spirits saying, I adjure you in the name of Jesus whom Paul is preaching. And there were certain seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish high priest, doing this. But the evil spirit responding said to them, I know Jesus, and am acquainted with Paul; but who are you?read more.
And the man in whom was the evil spirit, leaping on them, domineering over both of them, prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
because thus it is the will of God, that doing good you should put to shame the ignorance of the ignorant people:
But I say unto you, Love your enemies with a divine love, bless those who curse you and pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you:
But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink: for doing this you will heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome the evil with the good.
See that no one may return evil for evil to any one; but always pursue good toward one another, and toward all.
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they were casting the lots.
but on account of the false brethren having crept in, who came in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they shall bring us into bondage: to whom I rendered not submission for an hour; in order that the truth of the gospel may abide with you.