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.