“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.

And he said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”