'Evil' in the Bible

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.

For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

And that when I come again, my God may put me to shame among you, and I may have grief for those who have done wrong before and have had no regret for their unclean ways, and for the evil desires of the flesh to which they have given way.

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

This [deceptive] persuasion is not from Him who called you [to freedom in Christ].

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

And do not give way to the Evil One.

Do not let unwholesome [foul, profane, worthless, vulgar] words ever come out of your mouth, but only such speech as is good for building up others, according to the need and the occasion, so that it will be a blessing to those who hear [you speak].

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [but seek to please Him], by whom you were sealed and marked [branded as God’s own] for the day of redemption [the final deliverance from the consequences of sin].

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

In every situation take the shield of faith,and with it you will be able to extinguishall the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.

In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

But now you must rid yourselves of every kind of sin--angry and passionate outbreaks, ill-will, evil speaking, foul-mouthed abuse--so that these may never soil your lips.

Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,

You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;

For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.

And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;

and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not all have faith.

But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.

And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.

So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them,

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

However, God's solid foundation still stands. It has this inscription on it: "The Lord knows those who belong to him," and "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,

And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.

It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

"For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer."

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

And that there may not be any evil liver, or any man without respect for God, like Esau, who let his birthright go for a plate of food.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.

Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?