Evil

      

Genesis 6:5. Here, evil signifies no will for good, and so no perception of good and truth. (Arcana Coelestia 586).

Psalm 7:4. Here, evil signifies that the Lord is justice, and there is no evil in Him. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 7).

Genesis 19:19. When Lot worries that the evils from Sodom might stick to him as he flees, it signifies the danger of being at the same time in evil and in good. (Arcana Coelestia 2426).

Matthew 6:13. In the Lord's Prayer, when we ask for deliverance from evil, from these words, evil is rejected by the angels until only good remains with no idea of evil; and this with a kind of indignation that evil should be thought of when the Lord is thought of. (Arcana Coelestia 3605[2]).

Isaiah 5:20. When it says, "Woe unto those who say for evil good, and for good evils", it signifies that the distinction should be acknowledged. (Apocalypse Explained 526[7]).

Yet man is born into accumulated hereditary evil, so that in himself he is nothing but evil. Thus he calls evil good and even believes it to be good. So he must learn what evil and falsity are. (Arcana Coelestia 3701).