My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.

But test them all; hold on to what is good, reject every kind of evil.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies.

Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?

The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’

He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.

He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.

Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.

Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.

Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but those who promote peace have joy.

You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.

Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and will bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.

“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.

Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, “I find no pleasure in them”.