'Evil' in the Bible

But let your word be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but what is more than these is from evil.

But I say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

and lead us not into temptation, but save us from evil.

Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.

And Jesus, seeing their thoughts, said, Why do ye think evil things in your hearts?

and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one;

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

They say to him, He will miserably destroy those evil men, and let out the vineyard to other husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

And those bondmen went out into the highways, and brought together all as many as they found, both evil and good; and the wedding feast was furnished with guests.

But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified.

And he says to them, Is it lawful on the sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill? But they were silent.

For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

And Pilate said to them, What evil then has he done? But they cried out the more urgently, Crucify him.

Jesus therefore said to them, I will ask you if it is lawful on the sabbath to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

In that hour he healed many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.

If therefore ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall the Father who is of heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

But Abraham said, Child, recollect that thou hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and thou art in suffering.

And he said the third time to them, What evil then has this man done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will chastise him therefore and release him.

And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil.

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;

and shall go forth; those that have practised good, to resurrection of life, and those that have done evil, to resurrection of judgment.

The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I bear witness concerning it that its works are evil.

I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

He dealt subtilly with our race, and evil entreated the fathers, casting out their infants that they might not live.

And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many concerning this man how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem;

But when some were hardened and disbelieved, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, he left them and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel ...

And they said to him, For our part, we have neither received letters from Judaea concerning thee, nor has any one of the brethren who has arrived reported or said anything evil concerning thee.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

tribulation and distress, on every soul of man that works evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just.

For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do.

I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

For rulers are not a terror to a good work, but to an evil one. Dost thou desire then not to be afraid of the authority? practise what is good, and thou shalt have praise from it;

for it is God's minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God's minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

Let not then your good be evil spoken of;

For the sake of meat do not destroy the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil to that man who eats while stumbling in doing so.

For your obedience has reached to all. I rejoice therefore as it regards you; but I wish you to be wise as to that which is good, and simple as to evil.

But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for?

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

For we must all be manifested before the judgment-seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil.

through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, and true;

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;

But we pray to God that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates.

who gave himself for our sins, so that he should deliver us out of the present evil world, according to the will of our God and Father;

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

See that no one render to any evil for evil, but pursue always what is good towards one another and towards all;

and that we may be delivered from bad and evil men, for faith is not the portion of all.

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

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,

For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but suffer evil along with the glad tidings, according to the power of God;

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

But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.

Alexander the smith did many evil things against me. The Lord will render to him according to his works.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.

but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil.

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,

Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.

have ye not made a difference among yourselves, and become judges having evil thoughts?

but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison.

For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

Does any one among you suffer evil? let him pray. Is any happy? let him sing psalms.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.

And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;

because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears towards their supplications; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He that does good is of God. He that does evil has not seen God.

I know thy works and thy labour, and thine endurance, and that thou canst not bear evil men; and thou hast tried them who say that themselves are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars;

And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and there came an evil and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped its image.