Bible Verses about 'Evil'

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• Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
  Romans 12:21evilgoodnessovercoming
• The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.
  Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
  and perverted speech I hate.
  Proverbs 8:13aweprideevil
• Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
  remove the evil of your doings
  from before my eyes;
  cease to do evil.
  Isaiah 1:16sinpurificationevil
• Depart from evil, and do good;
  seek peace, and pursue it.
  Psalm 34:14evilgoodnesspeace
• The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.
  Luke 6:45sinspeakingblessing
• Keep your tongue from evil,
  and your lips from speaking deceit.
  Psalm 34:13speakingeviltruth
• Do not repay evil for evil or abuse for abuse; but, on the contrary, repay with a blessing. It is for this that you were called—that you might inherit a blessing.
  1 Peter 3:9speakingblessingcalling
• See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.
  1 Thessalonians 5:15blamelessrighteousnessevil
• Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
  turn your foot away from evil.
  Proverbs 4:27evilrighteousnessfollowing
• Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good.
  Romans 12:9loveevilgoodness
• And do not bring us to the time of trial,
  but rescue us from the evil one.
  Matthew 6:13temptationdesiresevil
• Let your word be ‘Yes, Yes’ or ‘No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.
  Matthew 5:37reliabilityevilspeaking
• Deceit is in the mind of those who plan evil,
  but those who counsel peace have joy.
  Proverbs 12:20eviljoypeace
• But test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil.
  1 Thessalonians 5:21-22understandingevilprophecy
• But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
  2 Thessalonians 3:3reliabilitysafetystrength
• For
  “Those who desire life
  and desire to see good days,
  let them keep their tongues from evil
  and their lips from speaking deceit;
  let them turn away from evil and do good;
  let them seek peace and pursue it.”
  1 Peter 3:10-11lovepeacelife
• I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
  John 17:15safetymediatorevil
• Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.” But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.
  Zechariah 1:4conversionevillistening
• Seek good and not evil,
  that you may live;
  and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you,
  just as you have said.
  Amos 5:14holinessrewardseeking
• The Lord loves those who hate evil;
  he guards the lives of his faithful;
  he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
  Psalm 97:10reliabilityredeemerevil
• Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
  Matthew 5:11blessingpersecutionevil
• As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.
  1 Peter 2:16lifefreedomevil
• Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
  Ephesians 5:15-16wisdomlifemind
• No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one.
  James 1:13temptationdesiresunderstanding
• The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
  2 Timothy 4:18protectionevilheaven