42 Bible Verses about evil, believers' responses to

and avoiding every kind of evil.

He said much more besides in giving his testimony, and urged them to save themselves from that crooked age.

Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about gratifying your physical cravings.

Certainly this is nothing for you to boast of. Do you not know that a little yeast will affect all the dough? You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

A little yeast will make all the dough rise.

Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness? How can Christ agree with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people."read more.
Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you, I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."

you must not give the devil a chance.

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

Let him turn away from evil and do right, Let him seek peace and go after it.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

But he turned and said to Peter, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! You hinder me, for you do not side with God, but with men!"

But turning and seeing his disciples he reproved Peter, and said, "Get out of my sight, you Satan! for you do not side with God, but with men."

preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.

for John said to him, "It is not right for you to be living with her."

John said to Herod, "It is not right for you to be living with your brother's wife."

But the other reproved him and said, "Have you no fear even of God when you are suffering the same penalty?

And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land? As long as it was unsold was it not yours, and after it was sold was not the money under your control? How could you think of doing such a thing? You did not lie to men but to God!"

Peter said to her, "How could you two agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? There at the door are the footsteps of the men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out also."

As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views

Those who are found guilty you must reprove publicly, as a warning to others.

and that statement is true. Therefore correct them rigorously, to make them have a healthy faith,

This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for his own conduct condemned him.

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil and he will fly from you.

and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.

No! If your enemy is hungry, feed him! If he is thirsty, give him something to drink! For if you do, you will heap burning coals upon his head! Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for your persecutors,

"But I tell you who hear me, love your enemies, treat those who hate you well,

Take care that none of you ever pays back evil for evil, but always try to treat one another and everybody with kindness.

not returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse. You must bless people instead. It is for this that you were called??o obtain blessing.

And do not subject us to temptation, But save us from the evil one.'

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive anyone who wrongs us; and do not subject us to temptation.' "

And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and give your slaves the power to utter your message fearlessly,

So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.