Bible Verses About Conflict between Good and Evil

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Thus saith the Lord God; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.