15 Bible Verses about Not Imitating Evil
Most Relevant Verses
'Thou dost not bow thyself to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their doings, but dost utterly devote them, and thoroughly break their standing pillars.
according to the work of the land of Egypt in which ye have dwelt ye do not, and according to the work of the land of Canaan whither I am bringing you in, ye do not, and in their statutes ye walk not.
and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;
take heed to thee, lest thou be snared after them, after their being destroyed out of thy presence, and lest thou enquire about their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods, and I do so -- even I?
'When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:
and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, only, not as the kings of Israel who were before him;
I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done -- she and her daughters -- As thou hast done -- thou and thy daughters.
And I say to their sons in the wilderness: In the statutes of your fathers ye walk not, And their judgments ye do not observe, And with their idols ye are not defiled.
For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,
all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;
And -- lo, he hath begotten a son, And he seeth all the sins of his father, That he hath done, and he feareth, And doth not do like them,
be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;
This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
