15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and completely break down their images.
You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, in which ye dwelt; nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I bring you; neither shall ye walk in their statutes.
And ye shall not walk in the practices of the Gentiles which I shall cast out before you; for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
keep thyself from being snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before thee; enquire not after their gods, saying, After the manner that these Gentiles served their gods, even so will I do likewise.
When thou shall have come into the land which the LORD thy God gives thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those Gentiles.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
As I live, said the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister has never done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
But I said unto their sons in the wilderness: Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their laws, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
For the LORD spoke thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,
therefore, whatever they bid you to observe, observe it and do it, but do not act according to their works, for they say and do not do it.
But if he begets a son that sees all his father's sins which he has done and seeing them, does not do according to them,
Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knows what things ye have need of before ye ask him.
This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their own senses,
