17 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Now I beseech you, brethren, to mark those who make divisions and cause offenses in opposition to the teaching which you have learned, and avoid them.

Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called;

But shun profane and vain babblings; for they will make further advance to ungodliness,

But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions:

But foolish questions and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Abstain from every appearance of evil.

Shun youthful desires, and follow righteousness, faithfulness, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Shun lewdness. Every sin that a man commits, is without the body; but he that is guilty of lewdness sins against his own body.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

But do you, man of God, shun these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, patience, meekness.

But the foundation of God stands firm, having this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his; and, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.

But with respect to the Gentiles that believe, we have written; having decided that they should observe no such thing; but that they keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness.

But reject those profane and oldwomanish fables, and exercise yourself for godliness.

Let there be no money-loving disposition; be content with such things as you have. For he has said: I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.

Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, that you keep yourselves from fleshly desires, which war against the soul,