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“But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’
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The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
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This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
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and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.
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The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.
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My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
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so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick, and their illnesses were cured and the evil spirits left them.
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Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.”
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One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?”
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Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
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Paul replied, “Brothers, I did not realize that he was the high priest; for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”
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They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
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slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
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But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
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There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;
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Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
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For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.
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So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
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Love in Action
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
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Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone.
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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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Therefore do not let what you know is good be spoken of as evil.
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Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.
