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Influence: Evil 1 Kings 11:3, 4

He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. / For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

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Influence: Evil 1 Kings 15:25, 26

In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.

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Influence: Evil 1 Kings 21:25

(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.

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Influence: Evil 1 Kings 22:51–53

In the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria two years. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. / Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

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Influence: Evil 2 Kings 8:16–18, 25–27

In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah. / Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. / And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Influence: Evil 2 Kings 17:21, 22

When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin. / The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.

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Influence: Evil 2 Kings 21:9

But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

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Influence: Evil 2 Chronicles 21:5, 6

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. / And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Influence: Evil 2 Chronicles 22:3–5

Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness. / And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for to his destruction they were his counselors after the death of his father. / Ahaziah also followed their counsel and went with Joram son of Ahab king of Israel to fight against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-gilead. But the Arameans wounded Joram;

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Influence: Evil 2 Chronicles 33:9

So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

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Influence: Evil Proverbs 22:24, 25

Do not make friends with an angry man, and do not associate with a hot-tempered man, / or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

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Influence: Evil Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

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Influence: Evil Jeremiah 17:1, 2

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars. / Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.

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Influence: Evil Hosea 4:9

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

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Influence: Evil Matthew 13:24, 25

Jesus put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. / But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

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Influence: Evil Luke 12:1

In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

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Influence: Evil 1 Corinthians 5:6–8

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough? / Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. / Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

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Influence: Evil Galatians 3:1

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

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Influence: Evil Galatians 5:7–9

You were running so well. Who has obstructed you from obeying the truth? / Such persuasion does not come from the One who calls you. / A little leaven works through the whole batch of dough.

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Influence: Evil 2 Timothy 2:14, 17, 18

Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin. / and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, / who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.

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Influence: Evil Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.

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Influence: Evil: Eve Over Adam Genesis 3:6

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

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Influence: Evil: Satan Over Adam and Eve Genesis 3:1–5

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” / The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, / but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”

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