42 Bible Verses about evil, believers' responses to

if it has the least appearance of evil, reject it.

and with many other discourses did he conjure and exhort them, to save themselves from that depraved generation.

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass? purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new mass, since you should be without leaven. for Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed for us.

a little leaven affects the whole mass.

Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness? what concord can Christ maintain with Belial? what concern has a believer with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God has said, "I will dwell with, and walk among them; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.read more.
wherefore come out from among them, be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, I will be a father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

lest the devil take hold of the opportunity.

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

We direct you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from all those of your brethren, whose conduct is irregular, and not agreeable to the instructions they received from us.

he must avoid vice, practise virtue, seek peace, and persevere in the enquiry.

for every one that doth evil, hateth the light, and shunneth the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

but he frown'd upon Peter, and said, out of my sight pernicious obstacle to my designs; your views are all worldly, regardless of what is divine.

but Jesus return'd, and looking upon his disciples, he gave Peter this rebuke, be gone, thou adversary, your views are all worldly, regardless of what is divine.

to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

for John had said to him, it is not lawful for thee to have her.

upon which John told him, "it is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

but the other answered, and thus reprov'd him, art thou under no awe of God, thou that art condemned to the same punishment?

upon which Peter said, Ananias, how could satan inspire thine heart to lye to the holy ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? was not the estate your own estate? and was not the price for which it was sold, all in your own hands? how came such a design as this in your heart? thou hast not lyed unto men, but unto God.

then Peter said to her, how comes it that you have conspir'd together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? see there at the door the men that are come from burying thy husband, and they shall carry thee out likewise.

At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

Those that transgress reprove in publick, to strike a terror in the rest.

the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith;

these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for he was to be blamed.

put on the set of divine armour, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.

and be not accomplices in the fruitless practices of vice; on the contrary, condemn them.

Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

resist him by the steadiness of your faith, considering that your brethren among the Gentiles, suffer the same persecutions as you do.

but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches.

therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing, you will heap coals of fire on his head . be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who traduce you, and persecute you:

But as for you, who hear me, love your enemies: do good to those, who hate you: bless those, who curse you:

Don't allow any one to return evil for evil, but strive to do all the good you can to one another, and to all the world.

don't return evil for evil, nor calumny for calumny; on the contrary, bestow your benedictions, considering that your vocation obliges you thereto, as a means to obtain the divine blessing.

and let us not be left under temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."

and forgive us our sins: since we forgive every one that has offended us. and leave us not under temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."

and now, Lord, behold their threatnings: and enable thy servants to deliver thy word with freedom,

us therefore approach with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain the seasonable assistance of divine mercy and favour.