Quotes About Evil

I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.

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,

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, “Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is deserved!

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

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

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

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is evil.

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.