100 Bible Verses about Overcoming Evil

Romans 12:21 ESV / 68 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

John 16:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:19-21 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

John 1:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 5:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Revelation 3:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.

1 John 4:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 John 5:5 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Abstain from every form of evil.

John 4:1-54 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ...

John 1:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He was in the beginning with God.

Revelation 3:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 3:1-21:27 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ...

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Romans 8:37 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

John 5:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 5:1-47 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ...

Zechariah 9:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Zechariah 9:1-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The oracle of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the Lord has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel, and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise. Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets. But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire. Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited; ...

Psalm 118:25-26 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house of the Lord.

Psalm 3:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Timothy 6:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 Corinthians 15:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Revelation 12:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,

Revelation 3:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 10:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 5:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.

Luke 1:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,

Psalm 3:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. 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. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 John 3:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

Romans 12:17-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 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.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Romans 8:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

John 14:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 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. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 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. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

1 John 5:4-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

James 4:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 6:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Ephesians 4:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And give no opportunity to the devil.

Romans 12:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,

Romans 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

John 1:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Revelation 12:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

1 John 3:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

1 John 3:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 4:1-6:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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. ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 2:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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 / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

James 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 1:1-5:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Matthew 10:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.

Matthew 5:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Psalm 121:7-8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

John 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...