20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Reject it, thou shalt not pass in it; turn aside from it and pass by.

And I beseech you, brethren, to observe narrowly them having made divisions and scandals against the teaching which ye learned; and bend away from them.

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

And avoid profane, empty discourses: for they will proceed to more of profanation.

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Keep away from all appearance of evil.

And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.

Wherefore, my beloved, do ye flee from idolatry.

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Truly the firm foundation of God has stood, having this seal, The Lord knows them being his. And, Let every one naming the name of Christ remove from iniquity.

My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

For the works of men, by the word of thy lips I watched the ways of the violent one.

But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.

To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

And of the nations having believed, we have written having judged them to keep nothing such, except to watch themselves from that sacrificed to idols, and blood, and strangulation, and harlotry.

And profane and old women's fictions reject, and exercise thyself in devotion.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.

Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;