24 Bible verses about Evil

Proverbs 8:13

13 The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

Proverbs 3:7-9

7 Be not wise in thine own eyes, Fear Jehovah, and turn aside from evil.

8 Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.

9 Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;

Psalms 97:10

10 Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.

Psalms 119:133

133 My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

1 John 1:9

9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Matthew 6:13

13 `And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory -- to the ages. Amen.

Mark 7:20-24

20 And he said -- `That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;

21 for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

22 thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

23 all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

24 And from thence having risen, he went away to the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and having entered into the house, he wished none to know, and he was not able to be hid,

Psalms 121:7-9

7 Jehovah preserveth thee from all evil, He doth preserve thy soul.

8 Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

1 Thessalonians 5:15

15 see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

Ephesians 6:12

12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

Proverbs 10:12

12 Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

2 Timothy 4:18

18 and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save `me' -- to his heavenly kingdom; to whom `is' the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.

John 17:15

15 I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

James 1:21

21 wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

John 1:5

5 and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

Romans 12:21

21 Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-23

21 all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

22 from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

23 and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Isaiah 1:16

16 Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Psalms 34:14

14 Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

Ephesians 4:26-28

26 be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

27 neither give place to the devil;

28 whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Romans 16:17

17 And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

Ephesians 6:11

11 put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

Zechariah 7:9-11

9 `Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

10 And widow, and fatherless, Sojourner, and poor, ye do not oppress, And the calamity of one another ye do not devise in your heart.

11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

Romans 12:9

9 The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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