What Does the Bible Say About Root Of Evil?

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 15 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.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 3 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.”

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 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.

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

John 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

John 13:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

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 13:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, ...

Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

23 Bible Verses about Root Of Evil

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 13:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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23 Bible Verses about Root Of Evil

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1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 13:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes