51 occurrences in 13 translations

'Bad' in the Bible

A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.

Verse ConceptsBearing Bad Fruit

So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

Verse ConceptsFullness Of The KingdomMixed MultitudeUsing RoadsWedding GuestsHighways

But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, 'My master is a long time in coming,'

Verse ConceptsServants Of The LordSoliloquyNot Serving God

But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,

Verse ConceptsTalentsSlothfulnessNot SowingNot Reaping What You SowKnowing God's Character

But Jesus said, "Do not stop him, because no one who does a miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say anything bad about me.

Verse ConceptsCuresMiracles, Nature OfIn The Name Of ChristOther MiraclesMiracles Authenticate God's Message

And rising up out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon. But Simon's mother-in-law was suffering under a bad fever; and they asked him for her.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesMothers, Responsibilities OfPeter, The DiscipleSuffering, Nature OfMother In Laws

"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.

Verse ConceptsLove Your Neighbour!Family LoveLove And FamilyLoving EveryoneTreating OthersBeing Lovedloversloving

And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive, what credit is it to you? Even bad men lend to their fellows so as to receive back an equal amount.

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfGiving Without Expecting ReturnGiving Backexpectationslent

“A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.

Verse ConceptsWicked Described AsFood DecayingBad Items

Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.

Verse ConceptsEvil EyesSingleness Of HeartDarkness Of EvilGood EyesDarknessEyesLightBeing Singleluck

And one of the teachers of the law, answering, said to him, Master, in saying this, you give a bad name to us as to them.

Verse ConceptsInsultsLegalismInsulting Other People

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.

Verse ConceptsBitterness, Examples OfProstitutionWantonnessFat AnimalsKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating Cattle

“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

Verse ConceptsLimitednessRiches, Ungodly Use OfDeath Of The Saints, Results InPainful MemoriesReversalsGiving Good ThingsBad SituationsGod Has ComfortedOvercoming Adversity

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

Verse ConceptsNot SowingNot Reaping What You SowCondemnation Of The WickedBeware Of Your SpeechStrictnessKnowing God's CharacterReaping What You Sow

Then some of the Pharisees said, “This Man [Jesus] is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner (a non-observant Jew) do such signs and miracles?” So there was a difference of opinion among them.

Verse ConceptsFaultsHumiliationLegalismPublic OpinionSigns Of The TimesDissensionSchismsDivisions Of OpinionSigns Performed By ChristChrist's OriginPharisees Concerned About ChristThe Sabbath And ChristThey Do Not Keep CommandsFinding Fault With JesusJesus Healing On Sabbathdivisionpharisees

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesCorruption Of BodyembalmingdoubtersSmellsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithFour Or Five Dayslazarus

But [when] neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and [with] not a little bad weather confronting [us], finally all hope was abandoned [that] we would be saved.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsencePessimismDark DaysWithout HopeNavigationNatural DisastersFeeling Lost

But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsWaitingPossibility Of DeathPeople Changing Their MindsSwellingMen As Gods

The Jewish leaders told him, "We haven't received any letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or mentioned anything bad about you.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of People's Situations

For though her sons had not been born yet or done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to election might stand—

Verse ConceptsElection, Characteristics OfGood Or BadBirthChosen Disciples

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

Verse ConceptsCommendationRulersSecurityTaxationMagistratesFear Is DueFearDoing The Right ThingBeing ScaredRespecting Authoritybehaviorterrorism

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.

Verse ConceptsStandingEnabling GracePersonal ResponsibilityAble To StandNot JudgingServants Of PeopleGod Establishes UsQuestioning GodJudging Others Actionsservanthoodcriticism

But while giving you these instructions, there is one thing I cannot praise--your meeting together, with bad rather than good results.

Verse ConceptsAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsGood Or BadPraising Specific People

But now rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, malice, slander, and obscene (abusive, filthy, vulgar) language from your mouth.

Verse ConceptsAngerBackbitingAggressionGrudgesSpiteVulgarityConversationMaliceSlanderCursingCrude LanguageAnger ManagementLanguageEmotionsAbuseSpeechjoking

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Verse ConceptsSpeechcriticism

And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

Verse ConceptsFalse TeachingsReproachTeachers, Of False DoctrinesThe Truth Of The GospelThey Committed Immorality

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.

Verse ConceptsOffences Against The Holy SpiritPrayer, For OthersUnforgivenessThe Holy Spirit, Being AgainstOfferings, Old Testamnent Kinds OfReprobatesThe Unpardonable SinLiving The LifePraying For SinnersDeath Of A Family MemberPraying For OthersForgiving YourselfDeath Of Loved OneSin Producing AfflictionsLoss Of A Loved One

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersOther People Of GodPeople Possibly Doing EvilImitatingBeing PositiveEthicsMoralityGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodbehaviorfollowing

and the first did go away, and did pour out his vial upon the land, and there came a sore -- bad and grievous -- to men, those having the mark of the beast, and those bowing to his image.

Verse ConceptsThe BeastDisfigurement Of SinCosmic CreaturesMarks On PeopleFirst ThingsFate Of IdolatersBowl JudgmentsCatastrophic EventsMark Of The BeastHealing CancerAbscesscancerserenity

Bible Theasaurus

Badly (29 instances)
Badness (5 instances)
Decayed (8 instances)
Defective (9 instances)
Dreadful (25 instances)
Forged (7 instances)
Horrible (32 instances)
Horrid (2 instances)
Regretful (1 instance)
Sorry (33 instances)
Spoiled (76 instances)
Tough (2 instances)
Unfit (5 instances)
Unsound (2 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּאוּשׁ 
Bi'uwsh (Aramaic) 
bad
Usage: 1

צוה 
Tsavah 
Usage: 494

רעה רע 
Ra` 
Usage: 669

רע 
Roa` 
Usage: 19

תּחשׁ 
Tachash 
Usage: 14

κακός 
Kakos 
Usage: 46

σαπρός 
Sapros 
Usage: 1

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