What Does the Bible Say About Evil Within?

Romans 7:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Romans 13:4 ESV / 3 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.

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 4:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...

3 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

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,

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 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.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 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.

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 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.

Romans 7:14-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ...

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. ...

John 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Luke 11:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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 end 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. ...

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Psalm 144:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Genesis 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”

1 John 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

James 1:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Galatians 5:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

34 Bible Verses about Evil Within

Romans 7:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

3 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:14-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 11:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 144:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 5:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Evil Within

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Romans 7:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 26:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

3 John 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:14-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 11:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 12:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 144:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 1:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 5:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote