And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Abstain from every form of evil.

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

But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

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

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.

have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”