15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.
You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.
And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.
By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done.
And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
Now if he has a son who sees all his father's sins which he has done, and in fear does not do the same:
So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.
This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,
