Evil World

And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

• Tares

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

• Heart

And GOD 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.

The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;