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Bible Verses about “evil in the world”

The Bible contains 49 verses about evil in the world across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

John 3:16
2236 votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

Romans 12:2
2116 votes

“Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

Ephesians 6:12
746 votes

“For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Romans 8:28
709 votes

“We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.”

1 John 2:15
647 votes

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

2 Timothy 3:2
536 votes

“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”

Ephesians 6:11
523 votes

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

2 Timothy 3:5
475 votes

“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”

2 Timothy 3:1
470 votes

“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”

2 Timothy 3:4
465 votes

“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”

2 Timothy 3:3
461 votes

“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”

Ephesians 6:13
458 votes

“Therefore, put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.”

Ephesians 6:17
456 votes

“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;”

Ephesians 6:10
448 votes

“Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.”

John 16:33
442 votes

“I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."”

Ephesians 6:18
441 votes

“with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:”

Ephesians 6:15
440 votes

“and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;”

Ephesians 6:16
429 votes

“above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.”

Romans 6:23
427 votes

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Ephesians 6:14
426 votes

“Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,”

1 John 4:8
331 votes

“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”

James 1:13
276 votes

“Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.”

Matthew 24:13
224 votes

“But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.”

Romans 5:12
192 votes

“Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.”

Matthew 24:12
187 votes

“Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.”

Matthew 24:11
182 votes

“Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.”

James 4:4
182 votes

“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

Matthew 24:10
179 votes

“Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.”

Matthew 24:9
162 votes

“Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.”

John 3:20
121 votes

“For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.”

Revelation 20:15
110 votes

“If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.”

Genesis 6:5
107 votes

“Yahweh 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.”

Revelation 20:14
106 votes

“Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.”

Revelation 20:4
103 votes

“I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn't worship the beast nor his image, and didn't receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.”

Revelation 20:12
101 votes

“I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.”

Revelation 20:13
98 votes

“The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.”

Isaiah 5:20
95 votes

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

Revelation 20:10
94 votes

“The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”

Revelation 20:6
91 votes

“Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.”

Isaiah 55:8
90 votes

“"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.”

Revelation 20:11
89 votes

“I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.”

Revelation 20:5
84 votes

“The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”

Revelation 20:2
78 votes

“He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,”

Isaiah 55:9
76 votes

“"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Revelation 20:8
69 votes

“and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”

Revelation 20:7
67 votes

“And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,”

Revelation 20:1
63 votes

“I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.”

Revelation 20:9
62 votes

“They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.”

Revelation 20:3
60 votes

“and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.”

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