What Does the Bible Say About Lesser Of Two Evils?

James 4:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Abstain from every form of evil.

Romans 3:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.

Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Proverbs 17:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes

He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 19 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,

Luke 3:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Ezekiel 43:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

From the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;

Jeremiah 2:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

Isaiah 7:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

Deuteronomy 31:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.

Deuteronomy 31:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’

Genesis 1:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.

Acts 23:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Matthew 25:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’

Matthew 25:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

Psalm 40:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 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 1:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Micah 6:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Ezekiel 20:43 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.

Ezekiel 6:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

Nehemiah 7:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The sons of Parosh, 2,172.

Ezra 2:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The sons of Azgad, 1,222.

Ezra 2:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The sons of Parosh, 2,172.

2 Chronicles 4:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.

2 Kings 5:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.

1 Kings 7:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

Deuteronomy 31:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”

Exodus 39:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.

Exodus 39:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.

Exodus 37:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it.

Exodus 28:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

James 4:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

John 8:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Exodus 21:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

45 Bible Verses about Lesser Of Two Evils

James 4:17 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:22 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 3:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 17:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 3:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 43:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 2:13 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 7:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 31:18 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 31:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:16 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 23:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1-31 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:22 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 40:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:32 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Micah 6:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 20:43 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 6:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nehemiah 7:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezra 2:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezra 2:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Chronicles 4:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 5:23 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 7:42 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 31:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 39:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 39:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 37:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 28:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:1-2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:31-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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