Bible Verses About Good vs. Evil

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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.

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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.

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?

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.

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

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.

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

A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

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

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

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

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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.

The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.