A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world

To put it differently, for the civilians that suffer the consequences of ethnic conflict and civil war, there is no good war and there is no bad peace.