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100 Bible Verses about Doing Nothing In The Face Of Evil

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2,834 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Romans 12:21 ESV / 2,731 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 2,579 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2,521 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2,447 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 2,178 helpful votes

O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 2,125 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 2,029 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 1,952 helpful votes

Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 1,881 helpful votes

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.”

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 1,870 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 1,825 helpful votes

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 1,809 helpful votes

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.

John 17:15 ESV / 1,808 helpful votes

I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

Romans 16:17 ESV / 1,805 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 1,803 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 1,800 helpful votes

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

James 1:21 ESV / 1,797 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 1,793 helpful votes

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 1,772 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Psalm 121:7-8 ESV / 1,757 helpful votes

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 1,754 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 1,754 helpful votes

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.”

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 1,753 helpful votes

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.

Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 1,746 helpful votes

“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.”

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 1,745 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Proverbs 3:7-8 ESV / 1,743 helpful votes

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.

John 1:5 ESV / 1,741 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:133 ESV / 1,741 helpful votes

Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1,706 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Psalm 34:16 ESV / 1,702 helpful votes

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 1,673 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 1,661 helpful votes

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.

James 1:13 ESV / 1,640 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 1,619 helpful votes

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 John 5:19 ESV / 1,583 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

John 15:3 ESV / 1,581 helpful votes

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 1,569 helpful votes

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 1,551 helpful votes

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”;

1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 1,542 helpful votes

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

James 3:16 ESV / 1,542 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Luke 6:1-22:71 ESV / 1,539 helpful votes

On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?” And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?” And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.” ...

1 Timothy 4:1-6:21 ESV / 1,538 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. ...

Matthew 6:1-13:58 ESV / 1,537 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Proverbs 12:1-20:30 ESV / 1,537 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...

Matthew 5:1-11:30 ESV / 1,536 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Zechariah 1:1-4:14 ESV / 1,536 helpful votes

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying, “The Lord was very angry with your fathers. Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 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. Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? ...

Proverbs 8:1-13:25 ESV / 1,534 helpful votes

Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...

Daniel 2:22 ESV / 1,532 helpful votes

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

Job 1:1-12:25 ESV / 1,531 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

Luke 1:37 ESV / 1,491 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 1,472 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 1,436 helpful votes

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

John 3:20 ESV / 1,377 helpful votes

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

Proverbs 4:27 ESV / 1,337 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 1,300 helpful votes

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 1,268 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Proverbs 10:1-12:28 ESV / 1,237 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. ...

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 1,192 helpful votes

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 1,179 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 1,165 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Mark 7:21-22 ESV / 1,125 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 24:11-12 ESV / 1,120 helpful votes

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 1,113 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 1,081 helpful votes

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

James 4:4 ESV / 1,081 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Psalm 1:1-2 ESV / 1,064 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1,007 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 1:3 ESV / 1,002 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 993 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Hebrews 3:1-12:29 ESV / 985 helpful votes

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house. For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later, ...

Hebrews 3:2 ESV / 979 helpful votes

Who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV / 955 helpful votes

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Timothy 6:2 ESV / 951 helpful votes

Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 920 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Psalm 37:9 ESV / 912 helpful votes

For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 824 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

John 14:6 ESV / 818 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Micah 2:1 ESV / 786 helpful votes

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 777 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

James 4:17 ESV / 759 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 752 helpful votes

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 693 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 682 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Proverbs 17:15 ESV / 651 helpful votes

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 647 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:16 ESV / 635 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 570 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Amos 5:15 ESV / 535 helpful votes

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 504 helpful votes

For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 487 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Romans 12:1 ESV / 476 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

James 4:7 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 442 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 408 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Psalm 34:1 ESV / 389 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

John 14:15 ESV / 332 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 320 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 303 helpful votes

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 286 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

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