20 Bible Verses about Avoiding Evil

Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called "knowledge."

But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

Stay away from every form of evil.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.

So then, my dear friends, flee from idolatry.

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

However, God's solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

As for the actions of people -- just as you have commanded, I have not followed in the footsteps of violent men.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality."

But reject those myths fit only for the godless and gullible, and train yourself for godliness.

Your conduct must be free from the love of money and you must be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you and I will never abandon you."

Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul,