Scripture teaches that evil deeds and attitudes are contrary to God's will and character. In Ephesians, believers are warned to avoid participating in wickedness and instead to expose it, as they wrestle against spiritual forces of darkness. The Bible also promises that God will ultimately judge and condemn wickedness, as seen in Revelation, where the wicked are cast into the lake of fire. Through confession and repentance, as encouraged in 1 John, believers can turn from wickedness and find forgiveness, while Romans reminds us to leave vengeance to God, who will justly punish evil.
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Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.