-
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
-
All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
-
But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.
-
that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
-
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
-
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
-
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
-
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, “Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts?
-
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
-
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
-
When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
-
The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one,
-
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
-
For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
-
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
