Bible Verses About Evil

"[ A Call for Justice ] “You must not pass along false rumors. You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stand."

Exodus 23:1 NLT

"Pharaoh retorted, “The Lord will certainly need to be with you if I let you take your little ones! I can see through your evil plan."

Exodus 10:10 NLT

"But when they had gone only a short distance and were barely out of the city, Joseph said to his palace manager, “Chase after them and stop them. When you catch up with them, ask them, ‘Why have you repaid my kindness with such evil?"

Genesis 44:4 NLT

"But the Lord considered it evil for Onan to deny a child to his dead brother. So the Lord took Onan’s life, too."

Genesis 38:10 NLT

"And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things."

Genesis 8:21 NLT

"The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time."

Genesis 6:5 NIV

"And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.""

Genesis 3:22 NIV

"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Genesis 3:5 NIV

"But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.""

Genesis 2:17 NIV

"And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

Genesis 2:9 NIV