15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but you shall utterly overthrow them, and completely break down their images.
According to the practices in the land of Egypt, wherein you dwelt, shall you not do: and according to the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you, shall you not do: neither shall you walk in their ordinances.
And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
Take heed to yourself that you are not snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
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, says the Lord GOD, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, 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,
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not according to their works: for they say, and do not.
Now, lo, if he begets a son, that sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers, and does not the same,
Be not therefore like them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
