20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them.

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee , turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

abstain from every form of evil.

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

but refuse profane and old wives fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;