20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Eschew it, and go not therein: depart aside, and pass over by it.

I beseech you, brethren: mark them which cause division, and give occasions of evil contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

O Timothy, save that which is given thee to keep, and avoid unghostly vanities of voices, and oppositions of science falsely so called,

Unghostly and vain voices, pass over. For they shall increase unto greater ungodliness,

Foolish and unlearned questions put from thee, remembering that they do but gender strife.

Foolish questions, and genealogies, and brawlings and strife about the law; avoid, for they are unprofitable, and superfluous.

Abstain from all suspicious things.

Lusts of youth avoid, and follow righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with them that call on the Lord with pure heart.

Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.

Wherefore my dear beloved, flee from worshipping of idols.

But thou, which art the man of God, flee such things. Follow righteousness, godliness, love, patience, and meekness.

But the sure ground of God remaineth, and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.

My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways.

Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

that is to say: that ye abstain from things offered to images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well."

For as touching the gentiles which believe: we have written, and concluded, that they observe no such things - but that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from strangled, and from fornication."

But cast away unghostly and old wives' fables. Exercise thyself unto godliness.

Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with that ye have already. For he verily said, "I will not fail thee, neither forsake thee."

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,