But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.” ¹ 

But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless ¹  evil, full of deadly poison.

Like obedient children, do not comply with ¹  the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, ² 

Live ¹  as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves. ² 

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, ¹  than for doing evil.

Above all, understand this: ¹  In the last days blatant scoffers ²  will come, being propelled by their own evil urges ³ 

We know that we are from God, ¹  and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

“Blessed are you when people ¹  insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely ²  on account of me.

Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.

But he answered them, ¹  “An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

The field is the world and the good seed are the people ¹  of the kingdom. The weeds are the people ²  of the evil one,

It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous

Then his lord called the first slave ¹  and said to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me!

But his master answered, ¹  ‘Evil and lazy slave! So you knew that I harvest where I didn’t sow and gather where I didn’t scatter?

Then ¹  he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?” But they were silent.

But when John rebuked Herod ¹  the tetrarch ²  because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, ³  and because of all the evil deeds ⁴  that he had done,

“Blessed are you when people ¹  hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil ²  on account of the Son of Man!

At that very time ¹  Jesus ²  cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, ³  and evil spirits, and granted ⁴  sight to many who were blind.