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This originally appeared as the article HEAL OUR LAND by Brother Gregory Williams, December 19, 2010, NewsWithViews.com

Who is Wicked

The people were said to be wicked[1] in the day of Noah[2] because it was filled with violence[3] which would end in its destruction.[4]

Nineveh's wickedness[1] came up to God[5] where it would be overthrown.[6] The word for “Wickedness” often means “moral and social sins" which includes violence.[3] "rather than idolatry" according to some Jewish commentators. But idolatry is covetous.[7]

And men were wicked[1] and sinners[8] in Sodom[9] and their sin was that they failed to strengthen the poor.[10]

In the Old Testament God promises to heal the land of Israel if they will turn from their wicked ways.[11]

What were those wicked[1] ways?

Were they the wicked ways of those who followed after Nimrod?[12]

Were they the wicked ways when the voice of the people went against the advice of Samuel in 1 Samuel 8 and rejected God by electing Saul?

Were they the wicked ways of Herod and the Pharisees in Judea when they were told to repent by Jesus Christ?

Do men continuously turn to ways that are contrary to the way of God and salvation?

Have we strayed from that narrow way today?

“But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.” Revelation 2:6

What were the deeds of the “Nicolaitans”?

Are they the wicked ways we are to turn from?

John the Baptist called the people to repentance which meant turn around and go another way. Was that because they were going a different way, a wicked way?

The secret of the Nicolaitans is key to healing the land and returning to liberty under God in the world today, but the truth has not been without disputation.

Beda Venerabilis, a monk at the Northumbrian monastery in the 7th century said Nicolas allowed multiple spouses. This idea probably led to Thomas Aquinas of the 13th century suggesting the error concerned polygamy or having common wives. Eusebius (c.263 - 339) suggests that the sect of the Nicolaitans was short-lived which would have to be true if there ever was a particular group or sect going by that name.

Some say the sect was named after “Nicolas the deacon”[13] or named after the bishop “Nicolas of Samaria” who was in the company of Simon Magus. It is true that Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Theodoret mention the Nicolaitans but there is no clear evidence that it was a particular group headed by a heretic named Nicolas.

But earlier comments of Hippolytus of Rome (c 170 – c 236) and later Victorinus of Poetovio (writing in 270AD) suggest that the heresy involved the idea of “fornicators and eaters of things offered unto idols.” This is probably near the truth and may be one in the same thing.

Since it was the “deeds” and the “doctrines” of the Nicolaitans that we should be concerned with, we do not need to know who they were but what they were doing.

“Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;” 2 Peter 2:14-15

What are the covetous practices and wages of unrighteousness of Balaam?

Peter states that through covetousness and feigned words the people will become merchandise. He also warns that men will promise you liberty but that you will be again entangled worse than before because you would turn from the righteous ways again.[14]

What was the connection between the doctrine and deeds of the Nicolaitans and Balaam?

If anyone desires to "divorce Baal" they need to understand who or what he is. Balaam is from the Hebrew word "Bal" or Baal ( BeitAyinLamed), meaning “lord” or “master”[15] and "am" references the Hebrew word for “people.”[16] It is an expression of superior rank over the people, which is contrary to the directive of Christ, the King, who came to set men free, and God's desire to rule us in our hearts and minds.

Baal is thought to be the ruler of the demons[17] and is considered to be another name for Beelzebub. Baal-hamon was the Ruler of Multitudes who sought dominion over all the things of the earth by becoming the ruler over men. Another name was Baal-berith who bound men with covenants, i.e., contracts. To be the ruler of contracts is to be the supreme judge of all contracts.

This is a governmental position and those who had the authority to be the “Ruling Judge” of contracts, agreements and disagreements were called “gods”. “'Ba-al' can refer to any god and even to human officials”[18] The gods of the Old Testament and the “gods many” of the New Testament spoken of by Paul were just that, human officials, magistrates and judges.

These men, which by nature are no gods, obtained power over the people because the people made contracts[19] with them, often to obtain some sort of benefit.[15][20] From Cain to Lemech, from Nimrod to Pharaoh, from Caesar and the Pharisees, even to this modern time, men have sought to rule over their brothers by force. For that force to be legal there must be consent in the form of a contract whether implied, constructed or executed. These agreements[21] that were often with what the Bible calls unbelievers were like a marriage or covenant with these other gods many of men. Those who entered into those agreements, often through application for benefits were considered fornicators or adulterers.

Balaam told the Moabites and Midianites, who surrounded Israel, that they could bring Israel down by getting them to sacrifice to idols[22] and to commit fornication.

The phrase “things offered unto idols” is derived from the Greek word eidolothuton (Νικολαΐτης).[23] There does not seem to be any reference to eidolothuton being used anywhere else in Greek literature.[24] It appears the word was coined by Paul as a polemical term derived from the Greek words for sacrifice and gods. It appears to be “the negative counterpart to Corban.”[21][25] In Mark, according to Jesus, the Corban of the Pharisees made the word of God to none effect. But originally Corban was the contribution or freewill sacrifice of the people in society to take care of the needy in their community.

It becomes evident that Nicolaitan and Balaam are two different word forms of the same idea when we come to the knowledge that Nike is the Greek word for “conqueror” with nikos meaning “victor” or “conquer”, and laos is a word that also means “people.” Both, Nicolaitan and Balaam, include the idea of rank, lordship, and submission to an exercising authority by the people.

These words express the simple idea that authorities like Nimrod of Babylon may obtain power over the people because the people apply to these men who call themselves benefactors but who also exercise authority one over the other. This power is not granted by God, but men are allowed by God to reject Him and give power over themselves to men, relinquishing rights by the consent and through the voice of the people.

This power to exercise authority often includes the “power” to judge or rule over men, but goes beyond the natural right to judge crimes of brutality and robbery. We are talking about systems where men force other men to bow and serve with their labor. Systems where men act as gods, judging and making laws that men must pay homage, homage, giving fealty or allegiance.


Nicolaitans were not followers of a man but of a doctrine. They were the people “who were charged with holding the error of Balaam, casting a stumbling block before the church of God by upholding the liberty of eating things sacrificed to idols as well as committing fornication.” They were snared by their own appetite for benefits provided not at the expense of their leaders but at the expense of their neighbor. The people were devoured in the civic pot of their own flesh.[25][26]

The things sacrificed to idols were the welfare programs provided by and administered through the civic altars of those various governments. One could become eligible for those benefits by an application for membership. This application often included an agreement to serve and contribute regularly to those incorporated altars of the state. There usually was an oath required, under the penalty of the courts who administered those systems.

Both God’s Kingdom and the kingdoms of the world had their temples and their ministers (clerks, bureaucrats, clergy, or administrators) who managed the institutions or altars of contributions. Judea had its Corban and Rome had its Qorban. Both began as freewill offerings and degenerated into compelled obligations of a contract.

Distinguishing the Nicolaitan or Balaam system of lords and laity, master and subject, from the liturgical ministers and laity established by Moses, John the Baptist, Christ and His Church is fundamental once the mechanism is revealed. Some systems of faith and allegiance have a top-down administration that exercise authority one over the other, but the ministers of God turn the world right side up through a system that operates according to the perfect law of liberty by faith, hope, and charity.

The error or stumbling block is to imagine that there is a God-given right to take from our neighbor through legal systems of social welfare. God hates these systems[27] which operate by force under the guise of charity, especially when they encourage the people to covet their neighbor's goods in a system that compels contributions under the pretense of social welfare. This socialistic sin of the Nico-Laity or the error of Bal-am stems back to the original error of mankind.

“Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.” Jude 1:11

This verse is explained with the following verse:

“These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;” Jude 1:12

If we are to distinguish between the ways of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and the ways of Christ, and turn from our wicked ways and heal this land, “We must learn to distinguish between charity and socialism. Charity is good, socialism is evil. (Pr. 14:30, 31, 19:17) Charity is for the helpless poor while welfare makes the poor helpless. (Ga. 2:10)”[28]

“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”[29] You cannot secure liberty or happiness without virtue in the people and it is not virtue to covet your neighbor's goods.

Through social compact people entangle themselves as little more than human resources of the state.[30] Praying for the benefits of their civil feast their covetous practices produce the wages of unrighteousness and all are captured in the net of their own making, which is a foolish rejection of God.[31] “It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”[32] “All socialism involves slavery”[33] " Redistribution is immoral... it allows one person to treat another as no more than a means...”[34] a human resource.

It is not loving your neighbor and God hates that. Like Cain, the people bludgeon their neighbor to satisfy their own lusts, wants and desires. The welfare state is the enemy of religion.[35] When pure religion[36] diminishes, socialism flourishes. “Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.”[37]


The word wicked

A common word translated wicked in the Old Testament is "ra"[1] which is more often seen as the word evil. Other words containing "ra" like "rasha"[38] are translated wicked more than 250 times. Other words have more to do with wicked plans or thoughts such as zimmah [39]

Evil know there are many who think they are saved believers when they are actually workers of iniquity, under a strong delusion, and even idolaters and servants of Satan. The Beast systems of the world become devouring monsters because covetous people sell themselves to them to obtain benefits by biting one another within cities of blood. Evil laughs at the foolish who choose to think they are free from his bondage, saved, and even righteous and he chuckles at the rebel who is cut from the same mold as he.

Evil

We can and should certainly ask the question "What is evil"?

The Greek words translated into the English word evil are numerous.

The inspired authors of the sacred text chose specific words to place in the original text to describe what they meant to say, share, and pass down to us.

By looking at these original terms we may get some inspired insight into that ancient mystery of what is good and evil?

Poneros

The one of the more common Greek term translated evil is poneros[40] which appears 76 timed and normally translated evil but is actually defined as "full of labors" or a bad condition. The bondage of Egypt was full of labors and was a bad condition which the people were never to return to again. We see poneros translated grievous in Revelation 16:2 "And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous <4190> sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and [upon] them which worshipped his image. The word noisome in this verse is from the Greek term kakos'[41] which is the other Greek word commonly translated evil.

Why are these two words commonly translated evil appearing in this verse together where neither of them is translated evil?

kakos

The Greek term kakos (κακός)[41], as an adjective ’ is translated evil more than 40 times, but the term kakós (κακῶς)[42] is only translated evil twice even though it appears 16 times.

The term kakos (κακός) is not only translated evil but also: wicked, bad, mean, foul, malefic in the sense of "morally corrupt".

While the term kakós (κακῶς) in the sense of quality may be someone or something that is "bad, worthless, useless"; as a condition of circumstance it may be "injurious, wretched, unhappy"; as a measure of character it would be describing a "low, mean, vile, evil" individual. Context will determine these variations.


Compound words

Some of the compound words said to be from the adjective Kakos would include words like kakopoios[43], is translated evildoer 4 times and malefactor once, while the term kakourgos[44] is also translated "malefactor" 3 times and "evil doer" once. The verb kakopoieo[45] is translated "do evil" or "evil doing".

Of course there are the verbs like kakoo[46] to oppress or inflict harm, or kakoucheo[47] to treat ill, oppress, plague.

There still more Greek compound words like kakoetheia[48] bad character, depravity of heart and life, kakologeo[49] speak evil, kakopatheia[50] the suffering of evil, and kakopatheo[51] to suffer (endure) evils.


Aristotle saw that a life that involves the exercise of the highest faculties, fulfilling a person's telos or end was expressed with the word agathos[52] which has been identified with virtue, or the absence of desire, or conformity to duty. So if good is ethics and virtue then evil is their absence.


Resurrection of damnation

In John 5:29 Jesus states clearly that "they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."

Jesus also makes it clear that "many" will think they know Jesus but will be sent away because they are workers of iniquity even though they think they are believers and followed of Christ.

The warnings are repeated over and over again that many people may think they know the truth, love God, and even love one another but actually they are so deceived[53] that they believe a lie.[54]

It is important that we know what Jesus means by words like evil and iniquity.7

If you do evil according to John 3:20 you hate the light and are not born again. [55]

The Greek words "pas gar ho phaula[56] prassōn[57]" (πᾶς γὰρ ὁ φαῦλα πράσσων) we see in the translation as "For every one that doeth evil" which is literally "Everyone for evil practicing". This seems to say that you actually do not have to do evil but you just have to be fore the practices that would be considered evil. There are long lists of such practices given to us by Paul and the Apostles as well as the prophets.

The Greek word phaula[56] does mean evil but only appears four times[58] in the Bible.

Coveting is rejecting God

If you are workers of iniquity you are rejected by God no matter what you say you believe. This is because you do not confess him with your works.

This is no different than the context concerning being Born again where they do not love the light.

In both cases, they are under a strong delusion and seeking the way of the world and the wages of unrighteousness, which is the way of error[59] and not The Way of Christ.

If coveting your neighbor's goods through the rulers who exercise authority one over the other of the state is idolatry, then legal charity is evil. Even some one who is just "for evil practicing" of coveting your neighbors goods through the rulers of their state is doing evil. If they do not actively seek the alternative which is the kingdom of God and his righteousness he is working iniquity and certainly rejecting the way and the words of Christ. They are not doers of the word.

Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil[41] concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them."

Two commandments some up the whole of the Law and if we love Christ we will keep his commandments.[60]


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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 07451 ^ער^ ra‘ ReishAyin \@rah\@ or fem. ^הער^ ra‘ah from 07489 the verb 07490 (Aramic)ReishAyinAyin evil (to crush); AV-evil 442, wickedness 59, wicked 25, mischief 21, hurt 20, bad 13, trouble 10, sore 9, affliction 6, ill 5, adversity 4, favoured 3, harm 3, naught 3, noisome 2, grievous 2, sad 2, misc 34; 663
    adj
    1) bad, evil
    1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant
    1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
    1c) evil, displeasing
    1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc)
    1e) bad (of value)
    1f) worse than, worst (comparison)
    1g) sad, unhappy
    1h) evil (hurtful)
    1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
    1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
    1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts
    1j2) deeds, actions
    n m
    2) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
    2a) evil, distress, adversity
    2b) evil, injury, wrong
    2c) evil (ethical)
    n f
    3) evil, misery, distress, injury
    3a) evil, misery, distress
    3b) evil, injury, wrong
    3c) evil (ethical)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200).
    • ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
  2. ↑ Genesis 6:5 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 02555 חָמָס‎ chamac [khaw-mawce’] from 02554 to wrong, do wrongly; n m; [BDB-329b] [{See TWOT on 678 @@ "678a" }] AV-violence 39, violent 7, cruelty 4, wrong 3, false 2, cruel 1, damage 1, injustice 1, oppressor + 0376(man) 1, unrighteous 1; 60
    1) violence, wrong, cruelty, injustice
  4. ↑ Genesis 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence<chamac> through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
  5. ↑ Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
  6. ↑ 02015 הָפַךְ‎ haphak [haw-fak’] HeyPeiKaf a primitive root; v; [BDB-245a] [{See TWOT on 512 }] AV-turn 57, overthrow 13, overturn 5, change 3, turn …  6, become 1, came 1, converted 1, gave 1, make 1, perverse 1, perverted 1, retired 1, tumbled 1; 94
    1) to turn, overthrow, overturn
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to overturn, overthrow
    1a2) to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around
    1a3) to change, transform
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to turn oneself, turn, turn back
    1b2) to change oneself
    1b3) to be perverse
    1b4) to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against
    1b5) to be reversed
    1b6) to be overturned, be overthrown
    1b7) to be upturned
    1c) (Hithpael)
    1c1) to transform oneself
    1c2) to turn this way and that, turn every way
    1d) (Hophal) to turn on someone
  7. ↑ Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
  8. ↑ 02400 חטא‎ chatta’ [khat-taw’] intensively from 02398 sin miss the way; n m/adj; [BDB-308a] [{See TWOT on 638 @@ "638b" }] AV-sinner 16, sinful 1, offender 1; 18
    n m
    1) sinners
    adj
    2) sinful
    3) exposed to condemnation, reckoned as offenders
  9. ↑ Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom [were] wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
  10. ↑ Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
    Leviticus 25:35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve(Same as strengthen) him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
  11. ↑ “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
  12. ↑ Nimrod the Hunter. Nimrod to Now, Video Series
  13. ↑ Hippolytus of Rome c. 170 – c. 236, The Refutation of All Heresies or Philosophumena., VII, chapt. xxiv. 2 Peter 2:3
  14. ↑ 2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known [it], to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog [is] turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." Galatians 5:1 "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
  15. ↑ These three letters Beit, Ayin, and Lamed can be translated man, man given, husband or captain but always in the sense of owner, lord, master, even having dominion over. If you add letters it becomes Lord of the covenants or fortune or if you add a Heh it becomes mistress, female owner as a sorceress.
  16. ↑ 05971 ^םע^ ‘am AyinMem \@am\@ from 06004 ^םמע^ ‘amam, see Double Mem; n m; AV-people 1836, nation 17, people + 01121 4, folk 2, Ammi 1, men 1, each 1; 1862
    1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one’s people, compatriots, country-men
    2) kinsman, kindred
  17. ↑ Matthew 12:24, Mark 3:22, Luke 11:15
  18. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba'al
  19. ↑ Exodus 23:32 “... make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.”
  20. ↑ The Covenants of the gods
  21. ↑ 2 Corinthians 6:16
  22. ↑ Acts 15:29, 21:25, 1 Corinthians 8:1...10;10:19...28, Revelation 2:14...20
  23. ↑ 1494 eidwloyuton eidolothuton AV-things offered unto idols 4, things offered in sacrifice to idols 3, things sacrificed unto idols 2, meats offered to idols 1; 10 1) sacrificed to idols... 1a) it was either eaten at the feasts or sold in the market
  24. ↑ There is some question about its use in 4 Maccabees 5:2 and its appearance in Sibylline Oracles 2:96 seems to be the result of its use in Acts.
  25. ↑ Tyndale Bulletin 44.2 (1993) 237- 254. Not so Idle thoughts about Eidolouthuton. By Ben Witherington III
  26. ↑ “...This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel...” Ezekiel 11:3, 11. Exodus 16:3; Proverbs 1:10, 33; Micah 3:1, 4; Zechariah 14:21
  27. ↑ The Nicolaitan who God hates covet their neighbor's goods.
  28. ↑ Evangelical Bible College of Western Australia Commentary. Revelation by Dr Peter Mose [Book 97-2] July 2004.
  29. ↑ John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 1872 – 1933, 30th President of the United States.
  30. ↑ 2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
  31. ↑ Ex. 20:17, 1 Sa. 8; 13:13, Ro. 7:7, 13:9, Col. 3:5, Heb. 13:5, 2 Pe. 2:3-14
  32. ↑ Frederic Bastiat, 1801 – 1850, French theorist, political economist.
  33. ↑ Herbert Spencer, 1820 – 1903, an English philosopher.
  34. ↑ The Kantian ethic of capitalism. Harold B. Jones, Jr.
  35. ↑ State Welfare Spending and Religiosity, A Cross National Analysis by Anthony Gill and Erik Lundsgaarde.
  36. ↑ Pure Religion
  37. ↑ Richard John Neuhaus, 1936 – 2009, prominent American clergyman.
  38. ↑ 07563 עשׁר AyinShinReish rasha‘ raw-shaw’ from the verb 07561 AyinShinReish condemn; adj; {See TWOT on 2222 @@ "2222b"} AV-wicked 249, ungodly 8, wicked man 3, misc 3; 263
    1) wicked, criminal
    1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst)
    1b) wicked (hostile to God)
    1c) wicked, guilty of sin (against God or man)
    • ע Ayin also U. Divine Providence "eye" or "fountain" of five states of kindness or severity. AlefYodNun or nothingness as opposed to AlefShin something [eye, watch] (Numeric value: 70)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200).
  39. ↑ 02154 המז zimmah zim-maw’ or המז zammah zam-maw’ from 02161; v; {See TWOT on 556 @@ "556b"} AV-lewdness 14, wickedness 4, mischief 3, lewd 2, heinous crime 1, wicked devices 1, lewdly 1, wicked mind 1, purposes 1, thought 1;29
    1) plan, device, wickedness, evil plan, mischievous purpose
    1a) plan, purpose
    1b) evil device, wickedness
    1c) not chaste, incest, licentiousness, adultery, idolatry, harlotry
  40. ↑ 4190 ~πονηρός~ poneros \@pon-ay-ros’\@ from a derivative of 4192; adj AV-evil 51, wicked 10, wicked one 6, evil things 2, misc 7; 76
    1) full of labours, annoyances, hardships
    1a) pressed and harassed by labours
    1b) bringing toils, annoyances, perils; of a time full of peril to Christian faith and steadfastness; causing pain and trouble
    2) bad, of a bad nature or condition
    2a) in a physical sense: diseased or blind
    2b) in an ethical sense: evil wicked, bad
    For Synonyms see entry 5908
    ++++ The word is used in the nominative case in # Matthew 6:13. This usually denotes a title in the Greek. Hence Christ is saying, deliver us from "The Evil," and is probably referring to Satan the adversary of The Way of God.
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 2556 ~κακός~ kakos \@kak-os’\@ apparently a primary word; TDNT-3:469,391; {See TDNT 351} adj AV-evil 40, evil things 3, harm 2, that which is evil + 3458 2, wicked 1, ill 1, bad 1, noisome 1; 51
    1) of a bad nature
    1a) not such as it ought to be
    2) of a mode of thinking, feeling, acting
    2a) base, wrong, wicked
    3) troublesome, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful
    For Synonyms see entry 5908
  42. ↑ 2560 κακῶς kakos [kak-oce’] from 2556; TDNT-4:1091,*; adv; AV-be sick + 2192 7, be diseased + 2192 2, evil 2, grievously 1, sore 1, miserable 1, amiss 1, sick people + 2192 1; 16
    1) miserable, to be ill
    2) improperly, wrongly
    3) to speak ill of, revile, one
  43. ↑ 2555 κακοποιός kakopoios [kak-op-oy-os’] from 2556 and 4160; adj; TDNT-3:485,391; [{See TDNT 351 }] AV-evildoer 4, malefactor 1; 5
    1) an evil doer, malefactor
  44. ↑ 2557 κακοῦργος kakourgos [kak-oor’-gos] from 2556 and the base of 2041; adj; TDNT-3:484,391; [{ See TDNT 351 }] AV-malefactor 3, evil doer 1; 4
    1) a malefactor
  45. ↑ 2554 κακοποιέω kakopoieo [kak-op-oy-eh’-o] from 2555 kakopoios meaning "an evil doer, malefactor" from kakos meaning "evil ...destructive"; v; TDNT-3:485,391; [{See TDNT 351 }] AV-do evil 3, evil doing 1; 4
    1) to do harm
    2) to do evil, do wrong
  46. ↑ 2559 κακόω kakoo [kak-o’-o] from 2556; v; TDNT-3:484,391; [{See TDNT 351 }] AV-entreat evil 2, make evil affected 1, vex 1, hurt 1, harm 1; 6
    1) to oppress, afflict, harm, maltreat
    2) to embitter, render evil affected
  47. ↑ 2558 κακουχέω kakoucheo [kak-oo-kheh’-o] from a presumed compound of 2556 and 2192; v; AV-torment 1, suffer adversity 1; 2
    1) to treat ill, oppress, plague
  48. ↑ 2550 ~κακοήθεια~ kakoetheia \@kak-o-ay’-thi-ah\@ from a compound of 2556 and 2239; TDNT-3:485,391; {See TDNT 351} n f AV-malignity 1; 1
    1) bad character, depravity of heart and life
    2) malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness
  49. ↑ 2551 κακολογέω kakologeo [kak-ol-og-eh’-o] from a compound of 2556 evil and 3056 words, thing; v; TDNT-3:468,391; [{ See TDNT 350 }] AV-curse 2, speak evil of 2; 4
    1) to speak evil of, revile, abuse, one
    2) to curse
  50. ↑ 2552 κακοπάθεια kakopatheia [kak-op-ath’-i-ah] from a compound of 2556 and 3806; n f; TDNT-5:936,798; [{ See TDNT 606 }] AV-suffering affliction 1; 1
    1) the suffering of evil, i.e. trouble, distress, afflicted
  51. ↑ 2553 ~κακοπαθέω~ kakopatheo \@kak-op-ath-eh’-o\@ from the same as 2552; TDNT-5:936,798; {See TDNT 606} v AV-endure hardness 1, suffer trouble 1, endure affliction 1, be afflicted 1; 4
    1) to suffer (endure) evils (hardships, troubles)
    2) to be afflicted
  52. ↑ 18 ἀγαθός agathos [ag-ath-os’] a primary word; adj; TDNT-1:10,3; [{See TDNT 8 }] AV-good 77, good thing 14, that which is good + 3588 8, the thing which is good + 3588 1, well 1, benefit 1; 102
    1) of good constitution or nature [{#Lu 8:8,15 Mt 7:18 Jas 3:17 }]
    2) useful, salutary, a gift which is truly a gift [{#Jas 1:17 Mt 7:11 Ro 7:12,13 Lu 10:42 Php 1:6 Ro 8:28 }]
    3) good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy [{#1Pe 3:10,13 Ps 34:13 2Th 2:16 Tit 2:13 }]
    3a) a good conscience [{#Ac 23:1 1Ti 1:5,19 1Pe 3:16,21 }]
    4) excellent, distinguished [{#Joh 1:46 }]
    5) upright, honourable [{#Mt 12:34 19:16 Lu 6:45 Ac 11:24 1Pe 3:11 Mt 5:45 22:10 Lu 23:50 8:15 }]
    5a) fulfulling the duty or service demanded [{#Mt 25:21,23 }]
    5b) upright, free from guile, particularily the desire to corrupt the people [{#Joh 7:12 }]
    5c) pre-eminently of God, as consumately and essentially good [{#Mt 19:17 Mr 10:18 Lu 18:19 }]
    5d) denotes the soul considered as the repository of pure thoughts which are brought forth in speech [{#Mt 12:35 Lu 6:45 }]
    5e) the fidelity of servant due to his master [{#Tit 2:10 }]
    5f) in a narrow sense, benevolent, kind, generous [{#Mt 20:15 1Pe 2:18 1Th 3:6 Ro 5:7 }]
    The neuter used substantively denotes:
    1) a good thing, convenience, advantage
    1a) in the plural, external goods, riches [{#Lu 1:53 12:18 16:25 }]
    1b) the benefits of the Messianic kingdom [{#Ro 10:15 Heb 9:11 10:1 }]
    2) what is upright, honourable, and acceptable to God [{#Ro 12:2 2:10 Eph 4:28 Ro 9:11 2Co 5:10 1Th 5:15 3Jo 11 Ro 12:9 Mt 19:17 }]
    2a) salutary, suited to the course of human affairs [{#Ro 13:4 }]
    2a1) in rendering service [{#Ga 6:10 Ro 12:21 }]
    2a2) the favour you confer [{#Phm 14 }]
    Syn.: καλός 2570, δίκαιος 1342. 2570 properly refers to goodness as manifested in form: 18 to inner excellence. [{Lu 8:15 }] In #Ro 5:7, where it is contrasted with 1342, 18 implies a kindness and attractiveness not necessarily possessed by the δίκαιος, who merely measures up to a high standard of rectitude.
  53. ↑ Many deceived
    Matthew 24:5 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many... 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
    Mark 13:6 "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."
    Luke 21:8 "And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them."
    2 John 1:7 For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
    2 Peter 2:2 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
  54. ↑ 2 Thessalonians 2:11 "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:"
  55. ↑ John 3:20 "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."
  56. ↑ 56.0 56.1 5337 φαῦλος phaulos [fow’-los] apparently a primary word; adj; AV-evil 4; 4
    1) easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of no account
    2) ethically, bad, base, wicked
    • For Synonyms see entry 5908
  57. ↑ 4238 πράσσω prasso [pras’-so] a root word; v; TDNT-6:632,927; [{See TDNT 657 }] AV-do 28, commit 5, exact 1, require 1, deed 1, keep 1, use arts 1; 38
    1) to exercise, practise, to be busy with, carry on
    1a) to undertake, to do
    2) to accomplish, perform
    2a) to commit, perpetrate
    3) to manage public affairs, transact public business
    3a) to exact tribute, revenue, debts
    4) to act
    • For Synonyms see entry 5871 & 5911
  58. ↑ John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil <5337> hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
    John 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil <5337>, unto the resurrection of damnation.
    Titus 2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil <5337> thing to say of you.
    James 3:16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil <5337> work.
  59. ↑ The way of error
    Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
  60. ↑ Love God and neighbor
    Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:... 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
    Matthew 19:17 "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."
    John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
    John 14:21 "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
    John 15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love."
    Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:...49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
    Luke 7:8 For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth [it].
    John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
    Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
    James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
    James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
    James 3:13 Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
    Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
    Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
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