20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge,

But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,

But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

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

hold aloof from every form of wickedness.

But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of spirit.

Yet the firm foundation of God stands, having this seal, The Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of the Lord withdraw from iniquity.

my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.

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

to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.

But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

Let your conversation be without love of money, satisfied with your present circumstances; for he has said, I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;