20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Avoid it! Don't travel on it! Turn away from it, and pass on by.

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them,

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the pointless discussions and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.

However, avoid pointless discussions. For people will become more and more ungodly,

Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.

But avoid foolish controversies, arguments about genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the Law. These things are useless and worthless.

Keep away from every kind of evil.

Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

And so, my dear friends, keep on running away from idolatry.

But you, man of God, must flee from all these things. Instead, you must pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

However, God's solid foundation still stands. It has this inscription on it: "The Lord knows those who belong to him," and "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

My son, do not go along with them, and keep your feet away from their paths!

As for the ways of mankind, I have, according to the words of your lips, avoided the ways of the violent.

Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled, and from blood.

to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will do well. Goodbye."

As for the gentiles who have become believers, we have sent a letter with our decision that they should keep away from food that has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled, and from sexual immorality."

Do not have anything to do with godless myths and fables of old women. Instead, train yourself to be godly.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you or abandon you."

Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.