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100 Bible Verses about Bad

Isaiah 5:20 ESV / 171 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!

James 4:17 ESV / 163 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:21 ESV / 126 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 123 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:27 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Proverbs 10:27 ESV / 79 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 72 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 64 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 64 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

3 John 1:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Romans 7:19 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 36 helpful votes

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.”

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:27 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.

Matthew 7:17-18 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 3:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

1 Peter 3:10-12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. 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.”

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Galatians 6:7-8 ESV / 16 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Proverbs 28:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Proverbs 24:19-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Proverbs 17:13 ESV / 16 helpful votes

If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

James 1:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Titus 1:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

2 Timothy 2:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 12 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.”

Matthew 7:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

Proverbs 28:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

James 1:13-15 ESV / 8 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. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Romans 2:6-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Matthew 15:18-19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Proverbs 14:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.

Proverbs 13:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.

Proverbs 13:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:13-14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Revelation 20:1-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. 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. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. ...

James 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Proverbs 15:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.

Proverbs 15:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.

Proverbs 6:12-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 20:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Unequal weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 34:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Revelation 14:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

1 John 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.

1 John 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 1:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 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.

Titus 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 4 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.

Colossians 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 14:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.

Romans 1:28-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Habakkuk 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Isaiah 32:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Proverbs 29:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.

Proverbs 28:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.

Proverbs 24:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.”

Proverbs 24:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,

Proverbs 21:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 20:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.

Proverbs 20:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?

Proverbs 13:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.

Proverbs 10:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Proverbs 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 4 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.

Proverbs 4:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 4:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

Psalm 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Job 34:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.

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