“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!”

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.

And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,

“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.

and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Then it goes and brings 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.”

The Sign of Jonah

When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’

A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”

And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.”

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.

But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.

so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”

But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”

And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed.

And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you.

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Marks of the True Christian

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.

For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”

Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

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.”