What Does the Bible Say About Good Evil?

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 7 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!

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

Revelation 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 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 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

James 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.

James 1:13-15 ESV / 2 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. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,

Hebrews 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

Romans 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God shows no partiality.

Romans 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works:

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 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.’

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!

Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Psalm 111:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They are established forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.

Psalm 111:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;

Psalm 93:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O Lord, forevermore.

Judges 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

36 Bible Verses about Good Evil

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 111:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 111:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 93:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Judges 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Good Evil

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 10:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 8:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 11:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 111:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 111:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 93:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Judges 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes