Bible Verses about 'Evil'

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• Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  Romans 12:21 evil goodness overcoming
• The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
  Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
  and perverted speech I hate.
  Proverbs 8:13 awe pride evil
• Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
  remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
  cease to do evil.
  Isaiah 1:16 sin purification evil
• Turn away from evil and do good;
  seek peace and pursue it.
  Psalm 34:14 evil goodness peace
• 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.
  Luke 6:45 sin speaking blessing
• See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
  1 Thessalonians 5:15 blameless righteousness evil
• Keep your tongue from evil
  and your lips from speaking deceit.
  Psalm 34:13 speaking evil truth
• 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.
  1 Peter 3:9 speaking blessing calling
• And lead us not into temptation,
  but deliver us from evil.
  Matthew 6:13 temptation desires evil
• Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
  turn your foot away from evil.
  Proverbs 4:27 evil righteousness following
• Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
  Romans 12:9 love evil goodness
• Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.
  Ecclesiastes 8:11 sin heart punishment
• Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil,
  but those who plan peace have joy.
  Proverbs 12:20 evil joy peace
• Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
  Matthew 5:37 reliability evil speaking
• But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.
  1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 understanding evil prophecy
• But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
  2 Thessalonians 3:3 reliability safety strength
• 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.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11 love peace life
• I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
  John 17:15 safety mediator evil
• Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
  Zechariah 1:4 conversion evil listening
• Seek good, and not evil,
  that you may live;
  and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
  as you have said.
  Amos 5:14 holiness reward seeking
• O you who love the Lord, hate evil!
  He preserves the lives of his saints;
  he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
  Psalm 97:10 reliability redeemer evil
• The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
  to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
  Psalm 34:16 evil sin
• 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.
  James 1:13 temptation desires understanding
• 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.
  Ephesians 6:13 protection evil devil
• Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
  Matthew 5:11 blessing persecution evil
• Be not wise in your own eyes;
  fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
  It will be healing to your flesh
  and refreshment to your bones.
  Proverbs 3:7-8 awe blessing evil
• 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.
  2 Timothy 4:18 protection evil heaven
• Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
  Hebrews 3:12 anger evil heart
• Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
  Ephesians 5:15-16 wisdom life mind
• Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  Colossians 3:5 sin desires materialism
• Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
  1 Peter 2:16 life freedom evil
• When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
  Jonah 3:10 repentance forgiveness grace
• Even though I walk
  through the valley of the shadow of death,
  I will fear no evil,
  for you are with me;
  your rod and your staff,
  they comfort me.
  Psalm 23:4 fear encouragement death
• 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!
  Luke 6:22 blessing persecution evil
• And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
  Mark 7:20-23 sin purification temptation
• 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.
  1 Peter 3:12 righteousness prayer listening
• 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!
  Luke 11:13 Spirit prayer family
• The Lord will keep you from all evil;
  he will keep your life.
  The Lord will keep
  your going out and your coming in
  from this time forth and forevermore.
  Psalm 121:7-8 hope life evil
• As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
  Genesis 50:20 God life evil
• For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
  James 3:16 sin selfishness evil
• Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him;
  fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
  over the man who carries out evil devices!
  Psalm 37:7 honesty life patience
• Thus says the Lord of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another, do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.
  Zechariah 7:9-10 evil righteousness neighbor
• He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
  and speaks truth in his heart;
  who does not slander with his tongue
  and does no evil to his neighbor,
  nor takes up a reproach against his friend.
  Psalm 15:2-3 truth blameless gossip
• For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
  Jeremiah 29:11 planning blessing hope
• 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.
  Ephesians 6:12 Spirit heaven evil
• Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”.
  Ecclesiastes 12:1 creation life joy
• Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
  Genesis 3:22-23 eternal life sin life
• 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.
  1 Timothy 6:10 money evil greed
• Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.
  Ephesians 6:14-16 truth righteousness evangelism
• Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
  1 Corinthians 15:33 evil goodness friendship