'Evil' in the Bible

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

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, lifting you high over all other kings.

What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

They have put on me evil for good; hate in exchange for my love.

Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.

They do no evil; they go in his ways.

Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

All your teachings are certain; they go after me with evil design; give me your help.

I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.

For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man:

For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.