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Evil In The World
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Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →
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!
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →
I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
Abstain from every form of evil.
Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. — read the full passage →
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
“‘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 shall be upon them.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.
To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. — read the full passage →
God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan, — read the full passage →
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil. — read the full passage →
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.” — read the full passage →
Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →
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