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100 Bible Verses about Exposing Evil

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 4,802 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

John 3:20 ESV / 4,226 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 3,343 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!

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 3,237 helpful votes

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

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3,079 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 3,039 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 / 2,820 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2,811 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.’

Romans 12:9 ESV / 2,557 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2,438 helpful votes

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

James 4:4 ESV / 2,393 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 2,340 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

John 8:44 ESV / 2,334 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 2,303 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.

Matthew 6:13 ESV / 2,213 helpful votes

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

John 1:5 ESV / 2,198 helpful votes

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

Romans 13:12 ESV / 2,121 helpful votes

The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2,120 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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2,105 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,

1 Timothy 5:20 ESV / 2,068 helpful votes

As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.

Matthew 12:34 ESV / 2,059 helpful votes

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

John 14:6 ESV / 2,040 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.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1,991 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.”

Ephesians 5:12 ESV / 1,912 helpful votes

For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 1,899 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.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 1,877 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:15 ESV / 1,862 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.

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 1,852 helpful votes

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

John 3:19-21 ESV / 1,803 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. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

James 1:21 ESV / 1,776 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 1,773 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 1,735 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 1,735 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

2 Timothy 4:18 ESV / 1,733 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 5:11-12 ESV / 1,697 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 1,694 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

John 8:32 ESV / 1,689 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 1,687 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 1,683 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 1,673 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 1,653 helpful votes

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

Psalm 121:7-8 ESV / 1,646 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.

John 17:15 ESV / 1,639 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 1:16 ESV / 1,637 helpful votes

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

Zechariah 7:9-10 ESV / 1,633 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.”

Romans 16:17 ESV / 1,629 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.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 1,629 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.”

1 John 5:19 ESV / 1,624 helpful votes

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

Matthew 3:7 ESV / 1,607 helpful votes

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 1,602 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 ESV / 1,593 helpful votes

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

Genesis 50:20 ESV / 1,582 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.

Psalm 119:133 ESV / 1,580 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:7-8 ESV / 1,577 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.

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 1,568 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 1,563 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.

Job 24:13-17 ESV / 1,545 helpful votes

“There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths. The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face. In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light. For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

Ephesians 5:13 ESV / 1,528 helpful votes

But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,

John 10:10 ESV / 1,498 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 1,482 helpful votes

Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

James 5:20 ESV / 1,479 helpful votes

Let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 1,469 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. 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.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 1,447 helpful votes

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.

Acts 26:18 ESV / 1,445 helpful votes

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Titus 1:10-13 ESV / 1,437 helpful votes

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Psalm 94:16 ESV / 1,405 helpful votes

Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 1,400 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 1,395 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Romans 13:4 ESV / 1,394 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.

Galatians 2:11-14 ESV / 1,377 helpful votes

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

1 John 2:4 ESV / 1,369 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

1 Corinthians 10:20-21 ESV / 1,366 helpful votes

No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

1 Corinthians 5:1-2 ESV / 1,359 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Acts 13:9-10 ESV / 1,356 helpful votes

But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?

1 Corinthians 3:1 ESV / 1,353 helpful votes

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

John 4:1 ESV / 1,351 helpful votes

Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Romans 3:23 ESV / 1,346 helpful votes

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

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 1,338 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Ezekiel 3:18-19 ESV / 1,329 helpful votes

If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 1,319 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 1,274 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.

James 4:7 ESV / 1,262 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 1,251 helpful votes

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

James 1:13 ESV / 1,248 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.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 1,235 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.”

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 1,219 helpful votes

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Psalm 141:5 ESV / 1,187 helpful votes

Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

Proverbs 21:15 ESV / 1,173 helpful votes

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 1,171 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good.

Psalm 55:23 ESV / 1,152 helpful votes

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 ESV / 1,113 helpful votes

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

Leviticus 19:17 ESV / 1,104 helpful votes

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

Galatians 6:7-8 ESV / 1,063 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1,047 helpful votes

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

Romans 16:17-18 ESV / 1,006 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. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

2 Peter 2:3 ESV / 993 helpful votes

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

James 4:17 ESV / 980 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 962 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.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 933 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 931 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

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