20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted [to you]. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of [what is] falsely called knowledge,

But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness,

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.

Abstain from every form of evil.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

But you, O man of God, flee from these [things], and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.

However, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who names the name of the Lord must abstain from unrighteousness."

My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

As for [the] works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept [from] the ways of [the] violent.

but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter [after] deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and [what has been] strangled and sexual immorality."

But reject those {worthless myths told by elderly women}, and train yourself for godliness.

Your lifestyle [must be] free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you."

Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,