John 3:20
King James Version
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light,
lest his deeds should be reproved.
These are difficult days, dark days, and trying times.
Do we know what "evil" is?
Are we to expose it?
If you encounter evil, what would you do?
If you encounter evil in a situation, would you expose it?
If you encounter evil in a person, would you expose his deeds?
First, what would be considered "evil"?
How do you know what's evil?
Being born again makes us aware.
Because SPIRIT teaches us GOD's laws.
JESUS defines what "evil" is:
John 8:44-45
King James Version
44 Ye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth,
ye believe me not.
Apostle Paul defines it:
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
King James Version
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor effeminate,
nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of God.
2 Timothy 3:1-7
King James Version
3 This know also,
that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness,
but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins,
led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning,
and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth.
James, the LORD's brother, defines it:
James 4:4
King James Version
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses,
know ye not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God.
Apostle John was shown it:
Revelation 21:7-8
King James Version
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers,
and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars,
shall have their part in the lake
which burneth with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death.
Revelation 21:27
King James Version
27 And there shall in no wise enter into it
any thing that defileth,
neither whatsoever worketh abomination,
or maketh a lie:
but they which are written
in the Lamb's book of life.
Revelation 22:14-15
King James Version
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers,
and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters,
and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
The WORD of GOD commands we walk in the LIGHT.
And EXPOSE evil:
Leviticus 19:15
King James Version
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment:
thou shalt not respect the person of the poor,
nor honor the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness shalt thou
judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 19:17
King James Version
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour,
and not suffer sin upon him.
Psalm 94:16-17
King James Version
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
or who will stand up for me
against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the Lord had been my help,
my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Psalm 97:10-12
King James Version
10 Ye that love the Lord, hate evil:
he preserveth the souls of his saints;
he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous,
and gladness for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous;
and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness.
Psalm 141:3-5
King James Version
3 Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth;
keep the door of my lips.
4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing,
to practise wicked works with men
that work iniquity:
and let me not eat of their dainties.
5 Let the righteous smite me;
it shall be a kindness:
and let him reprove me;
it shall be an excellent oil,
which shall not break my head:
for yet my prayer also shall be
in their calamities.
Isaiah 1:16-17
King James Version
16 Wash you, make you clean;
put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well;
seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
Ezekiel 3:16-17
King James Version
16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days,
that the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying,
17 Son of man,
I have made thee a watchman
unto the house of Israel:
therefore hear the word at my mouth,
and give them warning from me.
Ezekiel 3:18
King James Version
18 When I say unto the wicked,
Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning,
nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way,
to save his life;
the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity;
but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:19
King James Version
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked,
and he turn not from his wickedness,
nor from his wicked way,
he shall die in his iniquity;
but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 3:20
King James Version
20 Again,
When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness,
and commit iniquity,
and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die:
because thou hast not given him warning,
he shall die in his sin,
and his righteousness which he hath done
shall not be remembered;
but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:21
King James Version
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man,
that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin,
he shall surely live, because he is warned;
also thou hast delivered thy soul.
Zechariah 7:8-10
King James Version
8 And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah,
saying,
9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts,
saying,
Execute true judgment,
and shew mercy and compassions
every man to his brother:
10 And oppress not the widow,
nor the fatherless,
the stranger,
nor the poor;
and let none of you imagine evil
against his brother in your heart.
Matthew 3:7-12
King James Version
7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees
and Sadducees come to his baptism,
he said unto them,
O generation of vipers,
who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
9 And think not to say within yourselves,
We have Abraham to our father:
for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones
to raise up children unto Abraham.
10 And now also the axe
is laid unto the root of the trees:
therefore every tree
which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down,
and cast into the fire.
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost,
and with fire:
12 Whose fan is in his hand,
and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner;
but he will burn up the chaff
with unquenchable fire.
Matthew 18:11-14
King James Version
11 For the Son of man is come to save
that which was lost.
12 How think ye?
if a man have an hundred sheep,
and one of them be gone astray,
doth he not leave the ninety and nine,
and goeth into the mountains,
and seeketh that which is gone astray?
13 And if so be that he find it,
verily I say unto you,
he rejoiceth more of that sheep,
than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Father
which is in heaven,
that one of these little ones should perish.
Matthew 18:15-17
King James Version
15 Moreover
if thy brother shall trespass against thee,
go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone:
if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
16 But if he will not hear thee,
then take with thee one or two more,
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established.
17 And if he shall neglect to hear them,
tell it unto the church:
but if he neglect to hear the church,
let him be unto thee as an heathen man
and a publican.
Matthew 18:18-20
King James Version
18 Verily I say unto you,
Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven:
and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.
19 Again I say unto you,
That if two of you shall agree on earth
as touching any thing that they shall ask,
it shall be done for them of my Father
which is in heaven.
20 For where two or three
are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them.
Acts 13:5-12
King James Version
5 And when they were at Salamis,
they preached the word of God
in the synagogues of the Jews:
and they had also John to their minister.
6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos,
they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew,
whose name was Barjesus:
7 Which was with the deputy of the country,
Sergius Paulus, a prudent man;
who called for Barnabas and Saul,
and desired to hear the word of God.
8 But Elymas the sorcerer
(for so is his name by interpretation)
withstood them,
seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
9 Then Saul,
(who also is called Paul,)
filled with the Holy Ghost,
set his eyes on him.
10 And said,
O full of all subtilty and all mischief,
thou child of the devil,
thou enemy of all righteousness,
wilt thou not cease to pervert
the right ways of the Lord?
11 And now, behold,
the hand of the Lord is upon thee,
and thou shalt be blind,
not seeing the sun for a season.
And immediately there fell on him
a mist and a darkness;
and he went about seeking some
to lead him by the hand.
12 Then the deputy,
when he saw what was done,
believed,
being astonished at the doctrine
of the Lord.
Acts 26:15-18
King James Version
15 And I said,
Who art thou, Lord?
And he said,
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet:
for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose,
to make thee a minister and a witness
both of these things which thou hast seen,
and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people,
and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
18 To open their eyes,
and to turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan unto God,
that they may receive forgiveness of sins,
and inheritance among them
which are sanctified by faith
that is in me.
Romans 12:3
King James Version
3 For I say,
through the grace given unto me,
to every man that is among you,
not to think of himself more highly
than he ought to think;
but to think soberly,
according as God hath dealt to every man
the measure of faith.
Romans 13:1-2
King James Version
13 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power,
resisteth the ordinance of God:
and they that resist
shall receive to themselves damnation.
Romans 13:4-5
King James Version
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good.
But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid;
for he beareth not the sword in vain:
for he is the minister of God,
a revenger to execute wrath
upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject,
not only for wrath,
but also for conscience sake.
Romans 13:12-14
King James Version
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand:
let us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day;
not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness,
not in strife and envying.
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make not provision for the flesh,
to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Romans 16:17-20
King James Version
17 Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned;
and avoid them.
18 For they that are such
serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly;
and by good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple.
19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men.
I am glad therefore on your behalf:
but yet I would have you wise
unto that which is good,
and simple concerning evil.
20 And the God of peace
shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Amen.
1 Corinthians 3:1-3
King James Version
3 And I, brethren,
could not speak unto you as unto spiritual,
but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat:
for hitherto ye were not able to bear it,
neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal:
for whereas there is among you envying,
and strife, and divisions,
are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
King James Version
4 Let a man so account of us,
as of the ministers of Christ,
and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful.
3 But with me it is a very small thing
that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment:
yea, I judge not mine own self.
4 For I know nothing by myself;
yet am I not hereby justified:
but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
5 Therefore judge nothing before the time,
until the Lord come,
who both will bring to light
the hidden things of darkness,
and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts:
and then shall every man have praise of God.
1 Corinthians 5:1-8
King James Version
5 It is reported commonly
that there is fornication among you,
and such fornication as is not so much as named
among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father's wife.
2 And ye are puffed up,
and have not rather mourned,
that he that hath done this deed
might be taken away from among you.
3 For I verily, as absent in body,
but present in spirit,
have judged already, as though I were present,
concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when ye are gathered together,
and my spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan
for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6 Your glorying is not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven
leaveneth the whole lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven,
neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 6:1-5
King James Version
6 Dare any of you,
having a matter against another,
go to law before the unjust,
and not before the saints?
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?
and if the world shall be judged by you,
are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels?
how much more things that pertain to this life?
4 If then ye have judgments
of things pertaining to this life,
set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5 I speak to your shame.
Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you?
no, not one that shall be able to judge
between his brethren?
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
King James Version
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:
for what fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness?
and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial?
or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
for ye are the temple of the living God;
as God hath said,
I will dwell in them, and walk in them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them,
and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing;
and I will receive you.
18 And will be a Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.
1 Corinthians 10:21-23
King James Version
21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord,
and the cup of devils:
ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table,
and of the table of devils.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?
are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful for me,
but all things are not expedient:
all things are lawful for me,
but all things edify not.
Galatians 2:11-21
King James Version
11 But when Peter was come to Antioch,
I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12 For before that certain came from James,
he did eat with the Gentiles:
but when they were come,
he withdrew and separated himself,
fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him;
insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away
with their dissimulation.
14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly
according to the truth of the gospel,
I said unto Peter before them all,
If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of Gentiles,
and not as do the Jews,
why compellest thou the Gentiles
to live as do the Jews?
15 We who are Jews by nature,
and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 Knowing that a man
is not justified by the works of the law,
but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ,
and not by the works of the law:
for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ,
we ourselves also are found sinners,
is therefore Christ the minister of sin?
God forbid.
18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed,
I make myself a transgressor.
19 For I through the law am dead to the law,
that I might live unto God.
20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:
and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God,
who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21 I do not frustrate the grace of God:
for if righteousness come by the law,
then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 6:1-2
King James Version
6 Brethren,
if a man be overtaken in a fault,
ye which are spiritual,
restore such an one in the spirit of meekness;
considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another's burdens,
and so fulfil the law of Christ.
Galatians 6:7-8
King James Version
7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8 For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Galatians 6:9-10
King James Version
9 And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
10 As we have therefore opportunity,
let us do good unto all men,
especially unto them who are
of the household of faith.
Ephesians 5:11-12
King James Version
11 And have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness,
but rather reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things
which are done of them in secret.
Ephesians 5:13-16
King James Version
13 But all things that are reproved
are made manifest by the light:
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
14 Wherefore he saith,
Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light.
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly,
not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time,
because the days are evil.
Colossians 2:6-7
King James Version
6 As ye have therefore received
Christ Jesus the Lord,
so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him,
and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught,
abounding therein with thanksgiving.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-24
King James Version
21 Prove all things;
hold fast that which is good.
22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly;
and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body
be preserved blameless
unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calleth you,
who also will do it.
1 Timothy 5:20
King James Version
20 Them that sin rebuke before all,
that others also may fear.
2 Timothy 2:22-23
King James Version
22 Flee also youthful lusts:
but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace,
with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid,
knowing that they do gender strifes.
2 Timothy 2:24-26
King James Version
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive;
but be gentle unto all men,
apt to teach,
patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves;
if God peradventure will give them repentance
to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves
out of the snare of the devil,
who are taken captive by him at his will.
Titus 1:7-11
King James Version
7 For a bishop must be blameless,
as the steward of God;
not selfwilled,
not soon angry,
not given to wine,
no striker,
not given to filthy lucre;
8 But a lover of hospitality,
a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
9 Holding fast the faithful word
as he hath been taught,
that he may be able by sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers
and deceivers,
specially they of the circumcision:
11 Whose mouths must be stopped,
who subvert whole houses,
teaching things which they ought not,
for filthy lucre's sake.
Titus 1:12-16
King James Version
12 One of themselves,
even a prophet of their own, said,
the Cretians are alway liars,
evil beasts, slow bellies.
13 This witness is true.
Wherefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be sound in the faith;
14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables,
and commandments of men,
that turn from the truth.
15 Unto the pure all things are pure:
but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving
is nothing pure;
but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess that they know God;
but in works they deny him,
being abominable, and disobedient,
and unto every good work reprobate.
James 1:21
King James Version
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness
and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.
James 4:17
King James Version
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good,
and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Revelation 1:3
King James Version
3 Blessed is he that readeth,
and they that hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are written therein:
for the time is at hand.
Lastly, as born again watchmen, when we reprove our erring brothers and sisters, let us do so in love, peace, joy, patience, and humility, as CHRIST has done.
1 Corinthians 13:4-6
King James Version
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly,
seeketh not her own,
is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
but rejoiceth in the truth;
Ephesians 5:1-2
King James Version
5 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,
and hath given himself for us an offering
and a sacrifice to God
for a sweetsmelling savour.
James 5:19-20
King James Version
19 Brethren,
if any of you do err from the truth,
and one convert him;
20 Let him know,
that he which converteth the sinner
from the error of his way
shall save a soul from death,
and shall hide a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
King James Version
8 And above all things
have fervent charity among yourselves:
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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