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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
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.
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! ...
As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
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.
The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man's dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.
The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ...
For whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
As he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
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.
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
And especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,
And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
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.”
Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
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.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. ...
One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.
While evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
For which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!
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.
He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.
Abstain from every form of evil.
But test everything; hold fast what is good.
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.
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.
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.
Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; ...
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...
For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.
So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.
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.
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,
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,
Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees' party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”
And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”
And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
So that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.
And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter;
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,
But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.
And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. ...
He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.
And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.
Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
And come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”
But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
“The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.
When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”
And also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”
But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.
All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.
And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”
And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. ...
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...
“Judge not, that you be not judged.
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
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.
Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
Saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
“When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.