But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or a serious (ponēron | πονηρόν | nom sg neut) piece (ponēron | πονηρόν | nom sg neut) of villainy, O Jews, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you.

But the Jews, moved by envy, recruited certain wicked (ponērous | πονηρούς | acc pl masc) men of the marketplace and, forming a mob, they set the city in an uproar. They attacked the house of Jason, trying to bring them out to the people.

I am not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil (ponērou | πονηροῦ | gen sg masc) one.

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I am bearing witness against it that its works are evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom pl neut).

And the basis for judging is this, that light has come into the world and people love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom pl neut).

He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, wicked (ponēre | πονηρέ | voc sg masc) servant. You knew, did you, that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased (ponēros | πονηρός | nom sg masc), then your body is full of darkness.

As the crowds were getting larger, Jesus began to say, “This generation is an evil (ponēra | πονηρά | nom sg fem) generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil (ponērotera | πονηρότερα | acc pl neut comparative) than itself, — seven of them! — and after going in they settle down to live there. So the last state of that person has become worse than the first.”

If you then, who are evil (ponēroi | πονηροί | nom pl masc), know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”