Stay away from every form of evil.

The good person ¹  brings good things out of his ²  good treasury, ³  and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

The good person out of the good treasury of his ¹  heart ²  produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury ³  produces evil, for his mouth speaks ⁴  from what fills ⁵  his heart.

And do not lead us into temptation, ¹  but deliver us from the evil one. ² 

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

Love must be ¹  without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil people. For not all have faith.

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, ¹  deceiving others and being deceived themselves. ² 

If so, have you not made distinctions ¹  among yourselves and become judges with evil motives? ² 

But as it is, ¹  you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

because the person who gives him a greeting shares in his evil deeds. ¹ 

not like Cain ¹  who was of the evil one and brutally ²  murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

Let your word be ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one. ¹ 

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad ¹  tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

When Jesus saw their reaction he said, “Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe ¹  from the evil one. ²