The best Bible verses for evil (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for evil (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty."Matthew 5:45
"for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty."Matthew 5:45
"Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge! You can do anything you want! You're ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes."Matthew 6:13
"When vandal hordes ride down ready to eat me alive, Those bullies and toughs fall flat on their faces."Psalms 27:2
"Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good."Romans 12:9
"This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels."Ephesians 6:12
"The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did."1 Corinthians 10:6
"To be perfectly frank, I'm getting exasperated with your infantile thinking. How long before you grow up and use your head—your adult head? It's all right to have a childlike unfamiliarity with evil; a simple no is all that's needed there. But there's far more to saying yes to something. Only mature and well-exercised intelligence can save you from falling into gullibility."1 Corinthians 14:20
"You veterans know the One who started it all; and you newcomers—such vitality and strength! God's word is so steady in you. Your fellowship with God enables you to gain a victory over the Evil One."1 John 2:14
"We must not be like Cain, who joined the Evil One and then killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because he was deep in the practice of evil, while the acts of his brother were righteous."1 John 3:12
"We know that none of the God-begotten makes a practice of sin—fatal sin. The God-begotten are also the God-protected. The Evil One can't lay a hand on them."1 John 5:18
"We know that we are held firm by God; it's only the people of the world who continue in the grip of the Evil One."1 John 5:19
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
Receive a curated verse every morning — no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
The most-cited Bible verses for evil (MSG) are Matthew 5:45, Matthew 6:13, Proverbs 3:7. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to evil (MSG) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for evil (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.