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100 Bible Verses about See No Evil

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 270 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:9 ESV / 247 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 245 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.

Romans 12:21 ESV / 238 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 219 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 201 helpful votes

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

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 200 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.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 192 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.”

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 191 helpful votes

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

John 17:15 ESV / 186 helpful votes

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

James 1:21 ESV / 184 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 181 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 180 helpful votes

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

Romans 16:17 ESV / 180 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.

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 179 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.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 179 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.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 178 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.

Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 177 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.”

Psalm 34:13 ESV / 176 helpful votes

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

John 1:5 ESV / 175 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 175 helpful votes

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

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 172 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.

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 171 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Psalm 121:7-8 ESV / 169 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.

Psalm 119:133 ESV / 168 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:19 ESV / 167 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 3:7-8 ESV / 167 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.

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 163 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.

Proverbs 12:1-20:30 ESV / 162 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. ...

James 3:16 ESV / 160 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 160 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!

1 John 1:9 ESV / 159 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 158 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.”

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 155 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 155 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 4:1-6:21 ESV / 155 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. ...

James 1:13 ESV / 154 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.

Matthew 6:1-13:58 ESV / 154 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. ...

Luke 6:1-22:71 ESV / 152 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.” ...

Matthew 5:1-11:30 ESV / 152 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 / 152 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? ...

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 151 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 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 150 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

John 15:3 ESV / 150 helpful votes

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

Daniel 2:22 ESV / 150 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 12:1 ESV / 149 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”;

Proverbs 8:1-13:25 ESV / 147 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. ...

Job 1:1-12:25 ESV / 146 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. ...

Mark 7:2 ESV / 130 helpful votes

They saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 123 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / 123 helpful votes

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Proverbs 10:1-12:28 ESV / 122 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. ...

John 3:20 ESV / 121 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 121 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.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 119 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 119 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 1:2 ESV / 119 helpful votes

He was in the beginning with God.

Proverbs 4:27 ESV / 119 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 117 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.

Proverbs 4:2 ESV / 117 helpful votes

For I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 116 helpful votes

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

Romans 16:2 ESV / 107 helpful votes

That you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Hebrews 3:1-12:29 ESV / 106 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, ...

John 1:3 ESV / 105 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 102 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,

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 102 helpful votes

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.

Isaiah 33:15 ESV / 101 helpful votes

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 100 helpful votes

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

John 1:9 ESV / 99 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 93 helpful votes

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

James 4:7 ESV / 92 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

John 14:6 ESV / 87 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.

Psalm 34:16 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 84 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 83 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:20 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 79 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 6:23 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 75 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 73 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Ephesians 6:10-18 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 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. 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. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ...

Psalm 24:1-10 ESV / 64 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ...

1 John 2:15 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Romans 12:17 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 61 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.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

James 1:2 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 55 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

John 10:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

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

Micah 2:1 ESV / 54 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.

James 4:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Romans 8:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 47 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. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

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